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How high is Mont Blanc?
Mont Blanc is covered with snow all the year round.
The Mont Blanc is the tallest mountain in Europe.
From the terrace, there was a magnificent view of Mont Blanc.
To climb to the top of Mont Blanc is easier said than done.
The Mont Blanc is the highest mountain in the Alps.
The search for a Japanese alpinist who went missing on Mont Blanc was called off on Sunday.
This cheese pairs well with sauvignon blanc.
The Mont Blanc is Europe's tallest mountain.
The Mont Blanc is Europe's highest mountain.
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Had Miss Fipps not told her what they were, she would have taken them for ladies of fashion. In an age when women wore less than they had ever done but wore just as much blanc and rouge, there was little difference between the ladies in the side boxes and the ladies in the centre.
A guest at a party in 1764 was described as wearing on her face "rather too much yellow mixed with the red; she . . . would look very agreeable if she added blanc to the rouge instead of gamboge."
A white mask of cosmetic face paint, or blanc, had long been the norm for formally dressed ladies in the eighteenth century, but by the 1790s the deliberate artifice of the white mask was supplanted by a desire for a "natural" whiteness without additional coloring. "Rouge is no longer used; pallor is more interesting," wrote one commentator in 1804; "The ladies only use the blanc, and leave the rouge to the men."
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