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Updated: May 3, 2025

A special train had brought from Paris, under the high superintendence of Edwards, a dozen carriages and such carriages! Twenty horses and such horses! The Abbe Constantin thought that he knew what luxury was. Once a year he dined with his bishop, Monseigneur Faubert, a rich and amiable prelate, who entertained rather largely.

Ludovic Halévy - L'Abbe Constantin — Complete

A special train had brought from Paris, under the high superintendence of Edwards, a dozen carriages and such carriages! Twenty horses and such horses! The Abbe Constantin thought that he knew what luxury was. Once a year he dined with his bishop, Monseigneur Faubert, a rich and amiable prelate, who entertained rather largely.

Various - The French Immortals Series — Complete

Evelyn, who was a patron of this enterprise, describes how he "went with Lord Cornwallis to see the young gallants do their exercise, Mr Faubert having newly railed in a manège, and fitted it for the academy.

Clare Howard - English Travellers of the Renaissance

A special train had brought from Paris, under the high superintendence of Edwards, a dozen carriages and such carriages! Twenty horses and such horses! The Abbe Constantin thought that he knew what luxury was. Once a year he dined with his bishop, Monseigneur Faubert, a rich and amiable prelate, who entertained rather largely.

Ludovic Halévy - L'Abbe Constantin — Volume 2

But Gerbier was a flimsy character, and without a Court to support him, or money, his academy dissolved after a gaseous lecture or two. Faubert, however, another French Protestant refugee, was more successful with an academy he managed to set up in London in 1682, "to lessen the vast expense the nation is at yearly by sending children into France to be taught military exercises."

Clare Howard - English Travellers of the Renaissance