Granite
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"IN the Musée de Cluny in Paris are to be seen two blocks of granite. They are 'foundation-stones' of the famous Hotel de Rambouillet. One bears an inscription to the effect that the mansion of which they were once a part was built by the 'high and powerful lord 'Maitre Charles d'Angennes, Marquis de Rambouillet and Pisany."--Hôtel de Rambouillet and the Précieuses (1900) by Leon H. Vincent |
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- A group of igneous and plutonic rocks composed primarily of feldspar and quartz. Usually contains one or more dark minerals, which may be mica, pyroxene, or amphibole. Granite is quarried for building stone, road gravel, decorative stone, and tombstones. Common colors are gray, white, pink, and yellow-brown.
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