The Frenchman sang a ballad about love and picardy, and the like, and I gave him "Hearts of Oak," the sentiments of which song kept him shrugging his shoulders and drunkenly looking contempt.
"The Frozen Pirate"
W. Clark Russell
The girl put her handkerchief to her eyes once more, then went in search of Madeleine, her maid, a young girl from picardy, who did not know Gustave, because she did not enter Monsieur Gerbault's service until after his eldest daughter's marriage.
"Monsieur Cherami"
Charles Paul de Kock
312 picardy ceded to Burgundy, iii.
"History of the English People, Index"
John Richard Green