The Scarlet Pimpernel vocabulary

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Lille

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a far northern French city bordering Belgium.

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Still again, he applied to a house in Lille, which for centuries had possessed a complete set of Gothic characters; he also would send requisitions to the old Enschede printing house of Haarlem whose foundry still has the stamps and dies of certain antique letters.

Joris-Karl Huysmans. À Rebours
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"[...] the one who wears a shawl, and has a pocket-handkerchief tied to her side with a yellow ribband, is Madame Pierrot: she comes from Lisle, in France, and teaches French.”

Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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"Just now I'm reading Duc de Lille, Poésie des Enfers," he answered. "A very remarkable book."

Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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