beaux-esprits

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• There could be no better place to honor the art of dressmaking than the most prestigious art school: the Beaux Arts de Paris.

• Outside, on the roof, the clock is flanked by more Beaux Arts touches: statues of Hercules, Mercury, and Minerva.

• Drawing had been his first devotion, but he shifts to photography when he enters the Beaux-Arts de Paris.

• But the French critic Louis de Fourcaud, writing in the Gazette des Beaux-Arts, called it a masterpiece of characterization.

• Two weeks ago, journalists were arrested trying to capture shots of the Beaux Arts mansion where the wedding will take place.

• In the front rank of the railway service I do not remember many beaux.

• Both the young girls were dressed in their best; for they were going to a quilting-party, where they expected to meet many beaux.

• One of the beaux in the neighborhood expressed his admiration of it by saying "It beats all natur'."

• Four beaux—including father—handsomest of all; and but two belles—three—pardon me, Mrs. Dana.

• The dogs representing gentlemen were equipped, some as youthful, and others as aged beaux.