maire
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Cracked a foreign diplomat in expectant Washington: "Us ne passeront pas devant le maire* but there will be a common-law marriage."
From Time Magazine Archive
Happily, or unhappily—who shall say which?—there was a greater fool even than himself in the village; and he was the maire.
From Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II by Charles James Lever
The maire of the commune has the right of visiting the schools, but neither he nor any of the minor local authorities can interfere with the teaching.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" by Various
Also the xviij day of August suynge the kyng graunted to the maire of London waryne.
From A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum by Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas
M. Richard, the maire of La Villette, attempts similar experiments with animal offal, which M. Dumas, the great savant, declares highly satisfactory.
From An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections by Albert D.
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