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Examples
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According to the cable, the Ambassador also rejected the France's new "Grenelle" environment process, which looks beyond just the science of new technologies to also take into account "common interest."
Jeffrey Smith: WikiLeaks: US Should Retaliate Against EU for Genetically Modifed Resistance Jeffrey Smith 2010
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A posh building in rue de Grenelle (Paris), its days recounted from two points of view, one belonging to a cultured concierge, the other to a little rich girl with suicidal tendencies.
An Interview with Muriel Barbery by Viviana Musumeci, April 15 2008 2010
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Mr. Finch favors the Louis de Grenelle Corail Rosé Brut $18, a pale-salmon sparkling wine from the Samur district of the Loire Valley of France.
Thinking Pink for Valentine's Lettie Teague 2012
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Grenelle to be precise, where in real life there is a Prada store?
An Interview with Muriel Barbery by Viviana Musumeci, April 15 2008 2010
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For twenty-seven years I have been the concierge at number 7, rue de Grenelle, a fine hôtel particulier with a courtyard and private gardens, divided into eight luxury apartments, all of which are inhabited, all of which are immense.
Excerpt: The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery 2008
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I met him late one afternoon in what was once the downstairs bar of the Hôtel du Pont Royal where I was in the habit of making dates I wanted to remain outside the Grasset publishing house panoptic, held 24 hours a day or nearly that at the Twickenham, a bar that no longer exists, once at the corner of the rue des Saints-Pères and the rue de Grenelle.
Bernard-Henri Lévy: Is Jean-Luc Godard Antisemitic? First Episode: Hail Mary (1984) Bernard-Henri Lévy 2010
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He particularly noticed these details, for it had not been usual, since the envoys had taken up residence, for meetings in the rue de Grenelle to end so satisfactorily as hers must have done.
The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010
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I met him late one afternoon in what was once the downstairs bar of the Hôtel du Pont Royal where I was in the habit of making dates I wanted to remain outside the Grasset publishing house panoptic, held 24 hours a day or nearly that at the Twickenham, a bar that no longer exists, once at the corner of the rue des Saints-Pères and the rue de Grenelle.
Bernard-Henri Lévy: Is Jean-Luc Godard Antisemitic? First Episode: Hail Mary (1984) Bernard-Henri Lévy 2010
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When she had reached the top step, he added, casually, “I have heard it said that the gentlemen of interest to you are residing in the rue de Grenelle.”
The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010
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In fact, that morning Mary and Vangenzen called upon the American envoys in the rue de Grenelle.
The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010
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