A writer's Donnee, they would say, is his own.
"The Psychology of Beauty"
Ethel D. Puffer
Napoleon received the crown from the hands of the Archbishop of Milan, and placed it on his head, exclaiming, "Dieu me l'a Donnee, gare a qui la touche."
"The Project Gutenberg Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte"
Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton
This law being intended partly to meet the barbarous violences with which the excesses and quarrels of the Barons had half dismantled Rome, and principally to repeal some old penal laws by which the houses of a certain class of offenders might be destroyed; but the French translator construes it, "Que nulle maison de Rome ne saroit Donnee en propre, pour quelque raison que ce put etre; mais que les revenus en appartiendroient au public!"
"Rienzi"
Edward Bulwer Lytton