| | Campbell Corner - Poetry, Myth, and Philosophy |
 | | And more than a century before that, during the wars of expansion of Louis XIV, Avesnes was one of several cities in the region fortified by Vauban; in a footnote the guidebook adds that beneath its skies the same Louis had first enjoyed the favors of Montespan. |
| | These were all facts picked up during the year we lived in Avesnes, teaching English at the Institut Ste.Thérèse, a pensionnat where the daughters of prosperous farmers and tradespeople came to finish their schooling or prepare for the baccalaureate. |
| | Avesnes seemed to peer through the print on the page of the book, as if the hidden face of Avesnes were that of the priest bent over the copybook in which he was writing, as if it were impossible to perceive one without the other. |
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