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dauphin

Title of the eldest son of the kings of France, derived from the personal name of a count, whose lands, known as the Dauphiné, traditionally passed to the heir to the throne from 1349 to 1830.

Dauphin

Town in southwest Manitoba, Canada; population (1991) 8,453. It is situated 258 km/160 mi northwest of Winnipeg, and 19 km/12 mi west of the south end of Lake Dauphin. Situated in the fertile lowlands of the Vermilion River, it was founded in 1741 near a French trading post. An agricultural distribution and retail centre, it is involved in lumbering and fishing as well. The National Ukrainian Festival is held here every August, celebrating Ukrainian settlements of the late 1890s. Riding Mountain National Park is to the south.
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He therefore shaped his course toward that place and dismounted at the Dauphin d'Or.
Twenty Years After by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
It was barely two days since the last cavalcade of that nature, that of the Flemish ambassadors charged with concluding the marriage between the dauphin and Marguerite of Flanders, had made its entry into Paris, to the great annoyance of M.
Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context
{faubourg = neighborhood ; Rosny = Chateau of Rosny, country estate of the Dukes of Berry at Rosny-sur-Seine; Madame = title of Princess Marie Therese Charlotte, wife of the Dauphin Louis Antoine, heir to Charles X}
Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
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