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  • For at least 15 years, local officials have been collaborating with the police department to tacitly authorize the obstruction of a few narrow streets in Paris's 18th arrondissement—Rues Myrha, Léon, Polonceau, Poissoniers—to accommodate overflowing crowds for midday prayers on Fridays.

    Toward an 'Islam de France' Nidra Poller 2011

  • In this manner, the barricade, walled on three streets, in front on the Rue de la Chanvrerie, to the left on the Rues du Cygne and de la Petite Truanderie, to the right on the Rue Mondetour, was really almost impregnable; it is true that they were fatally hemmed in there.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • All that old quarter of the Halles, which is like a city within a city, through which run the Rues Saint – Denis and Saint – Martin, where a thousand lanes cross, and of which the insurgents had made their redoubt and their stronghold, would have appeared to him like a dark and enormous cavity hollowed out in the centre of Paris.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • Rues Desprez et Vercingétorix — La Femme '(1966), by Jacques Villeglé, on view in Paris.

    Time Off Europe Calendar 2008

  • He interrogated his sentinel of the Rues Droit – Mur and Petit – Picpus; that agent, who had remained imperturbably at his post, had not seen the man pass.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • French being our “Mother-tongue” we yearn to learn it as much as possible and rue over the fact that the Rues of Puducherry are a vanishing breed.

    Our affinity with France Tusar N Mohapatra 2007

  • The busy streets were the Rues Saint-Denis and Saint-Honore on the right bank, the Rue Saint-Jacques on the left; and the most important shops were to be found in the Rue de la Loi, at present the Rue de Richelieu.

    Balzac 2003

  • Its range of buildings, for it surrounded a court, stood at the corner of the Rues de la Pompe et des Bons Enfans.

    The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette William Douw Lighthall

  • To D Company fell the distinction of initiating the advance on the whole corps 'front, and then B Company passed through them and advanced the line to Rues des Vaches Farm.

    The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry and 14th (F. & F. Yeo.) Battn. R.H. 1914-1919 David Douglas Ogilvie

  • The shops and cafés in the Rues Cannebière and Noailles.

    The South of France—East Half C. B. Black

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