Sentence examples for marquis from inspiring English sources

In the film, which Ruiz considered not far from Monty Python, John Hurt plays both a wicked marquis and a manufacturer of prosthetic limbs.

Lesser ranks can settle for the marquis, earl or viscount types for a mere $720,000 roughly 730 times as much as the average urban Chinese earns in a year.

When she married an aristocrat, she wired her studio boss, Adolph Zukor, "Am arriving with the marquis tomorrow.

In 1817 he was created a marquis.

Notable Europeans including novelist Lady Sydney Morgan, the marquis de Lafayette, Germaine de Staël, and Charles Talleyrand befriended her.

After early schooling with his uncle, Abbé de Sade of Ebreuil, the marquis continued his studies at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris.

There he engaged his male servant Latour to find him some prostitutes, upon whom the marquis committed his usual sexual excesses.

Vauban's growing responsibilities included those as "commissary general of fortifications"—though that title remained with the nominal holder of the office until 1677; he travelled constantly and conducted an immense correspondence with the King and with the war minister, the marquis de Louvois.

In 1516 he dedicated to the marquis of Monferrato his short Dialogus de homine and a more important treatise, De triplici ratione cognoscendi Deum.

She married Marquis Florent-Claude de Châtelet-Lomont in 1725.

The latest BBC exes reveal that director of television Danny Cohen and BBC1 controller Charlotte Moore both checked into the Sunset Marquis, the West Hollywood hotel of choice for rock royalty, during May for the LA Screenings (the annual jolly to the west coast for UK TV execs keen to see the latest offerings from the US studios and networks).