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St. Vincent de Paule, aumonier général des galeres, to whom France owes the chief of its humane establishments, instituted amongst the rest, the Foundling Hospital of Paris.

From Brief Reflections relative to the Emigrant French Clergy by Burney, Fanny

Well might the weary courtiers cry out against les galeres du bel esprit.

From The Women of the French Salons by Mason, Amelia Ruth Gere