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" These words of good Monsieur Goulden reassured Aunt Grédel and Catharine, who returned to Quatre-Vents full of hope; but they did not affect me, for from that moment I had not a moment of rest day or night.
— from The Conscript: A Story of the French war of 1813 by Erckmann-Chatrian
29 The French Antiquaries have pushed the antiquity of this castle to the 11th century, supposing it to have been built by William d'Arques , Count of Tallon, son of the second marriage of Richard Duke of Normandy.
— from A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
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