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Du Maurier

noun

English writer of melodramatic novels (1907-1989). Synonyms: Dame Daphne du Maurier, Daphne du Maurier.

English writer and illustrator; grandfather of Daphne du Maurier (1834-1896). Synonyms: George du Maurier, George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier.

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... tacit accomplice with a measure that he conceived fraught with violence to the public privileges. He had an inflexible enemy in Carleton, the English ambassador. His interference carried the question; and it was at his suggestion that Dordrecht, or Dort, was chosen for the assembling of the synod. Du Maurier, the French ambassador, acted on all occasions as a mediator; but to obtain influence at such a time it was necessary to become a partisan. Several towns—Leyden, Gouda, Rotterdam, and some others—made a last effort for their liberties, and ...

— Holland - The History of the Netherlands • Thomas Colley Grattan

... England had a better time than did Du Maurier on that cold day when he took the hat of an old soldier on Hampstead road, and sent him away to the soup kitchen in Euston to get warm. The artist chalked on a blackboard such portraits as he commonly ...

— Cheerfulness as a Life Power • Orison Swett Marden

Words linked to "Du Maurier" : George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier, illustrator, writer, Dame Daphne du Maurier, Daphne du Maurier, author