So taking all things into consideration, I ordered in another bottle of burgundy, to drink Mrs. Ram's health-got my passport vised for Barege-and set out for the Pyrenees the same evening."
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
She had on a white Barege dress, very simple, but extremely pretty.
"Virgin Soil"
Ivan S. Turgenev
Mimi was seized with a fit of hysterical laughter, and skipped about like a kid, waving a Barege scarf.
"Bohemians of the Latin Quarter"
Henry Murger