echevin

Updated: May 5, 2025

He composed the sign of six physicians, with the legend; the echevin applauded and authorized it. The sign produced an extravagant success in the city, which proves that poetry has always been in the wrong, before citizens, as Pittrino said.

Alexandre Dumas - Ten Years Later

Clement saw his old echevin safe home, left word at our house that he was unhurt, but did not come in; and at Maison Verdon, no one had even guessed what danger he was in, for all the attention of the household was spent on the wounded men, one of whom died that night. Things got worse and worse.

Charlotte Mary Yonge - Stray Pearls