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Dieppe: tags: [geography]

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Definition:

a northern coastal commune in France

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There are orders for arresting all foreigners, but leave it to me. I have a brother at Dieppe in Normandy! I'll conduct you thither, and if you have a diamond to give him he'll take as much care of you as I would."

Voltaire. Candide

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he must have a wife. She found him one— the widow of a bailiff at Dieppe— who was forty-five and had an income of twelve hundred francs.

Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary