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La Tour   /lɑ tʊr/   Listen
La Tour

noun
1.
French painter of religious works (1593-1652).  Synonym: Georges de La Tour.





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... was long before her restless spirit could find real peace. She threw herself on the guidance of the Abbe de la Tour; for the dread of death was ever upon her. He suggested a terrible test of her penitence. It was, that she should entreat her husband's pardon, and return to him. It was a fearful struggle with herself, for she was naturally haughty and high spirited; but she consented. After ...
— The Wits and Beaux of Society - Volume 1 • Grace Wharton and Philip Wharton
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... not easy to decide, and it is perhaps in both senses impertinent to speculate, whether the "Marguerite" (whose La Tour-like portrait is drawn in this piece with such relish, and who is so philosophically left to her fate by her lover on the Terrace at Berne later) had any live original. She seems a little more human in ...
— Matthew Arnold • George Saintsbury
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... father of Catherine, married in 1518, for his second wife, Madeleine de la Tour de Boulogne, in Auvergne, and died April 25, 1519, a few days after his wife, who died in giving birth to Catherine. Catherine was therefore orphaned of father and mother as soon as she drew breath. Hence the ...
— Catherine de' Medici • Honore de Balzac
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Words linked to "La Tour" :   Georges de La Tour, old master


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