Brelan

The 'brelan' over, she ran to Madame de Maintenon; told her what had just occurred; said that the presence of M. de Vendome at Marly was a continual insult to her; and begged her to solicit the King to forbid M. de Vendome to come there. ❋ Various (N/A)

I thought I should have fainted, when she said, in a triumphant tone, I have the 'brelan' of kings. ❋ Mme. Du Hausset (N/A)

There, from 1802 to 1804, all the bourgeois of Soulanges played at dominoes and a game of cards called "brelan," drank tiny glasses of liqueur or boiled wine, and ate brandied fruits and biscuits; for the dearness of colonial products had banished coffee, sugar, and chocolate. ❋ Honor�� De Balzac (1824)

Duchesse de Berry presided in the salon at the public lansquenet and brelan; and the different gaming tables for all the Court. ❋ Various (N/A)

Playing at brelan one evening, she offered him a stake, and because he would not accept it bantered him, and playfully called him a poltroon. ❋ Various (N/A)

Monseigneur the Duc de Bourgogne asked the Duc de Montfort if he would play at brelan. ❋ Various (N/A)

"And I," said the abbe, at the window, "do not see M. d'Eymeris, who owes me eleven hundred livres from our last game of brelan." ❋ Alexandre Dumas P��re (1836)

"I have a sequence of four kings" (_brelan de roi quatrieme_), he would say with a laugh when he counted his letters from royal personages. ❋ Unknown (1830)

"At brelan!" cried Montfort, in extreme astonishment; "you cannot mean it! ❋ Various (N/A)

The King does not wish that we should be dull here at Marly, and has ordered me to make everybody play; and, for fear that nobody should dare to begin, to set, myself, the example; "and with this he began to play at brelan; and the salon was soon filled with gaming tables. ❋ Various (N/A)