Our route back to Paris was rendered very agreeable by the lively and clever conversation of the Comtesse de gand.
"The Idler in France"
Marguerite Gardiner
A play upon the words gant, a glove, and gand, the French for Ghent.
"The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
On the boulevard des Italiens, formerly known as the boulevard de gand, as he lounged past the long line of chairs before the Cafe de Paris, where, mingled with a few women of the Chaussee d'Antin accompanied by their husbands and children, may be seen toward evening a cordon of nocturnal beauties waiting only a gloved hand to gather them, la Peyrade's heart received a cruel shock.
"The Lesser Bourgeoisie"
Honore de Balzac
