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It is often known as the Quartier Latin (Latin Quarter) although it's been a long time since many have spoken Latin there.
City-Guide.cc 2008
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The plan, dreamed up in 2001, is to build an arts district known as the Quartier des Spectacles, which would provide a clean, walkable urban quarter around downtown's Place des Arts, where the jazz festival mostly takes place.
Montreal's City Planners Turn Creative Robbie Whelan 2011
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It is that, I suppose, as much as his hair, that recalls the Quartier Latin to my mind.
A Modern Utopia Herbert George 2006
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All the great avenues, Alma, Jena, Kleber, and the adjacent streets are known as the Quartier de l'Etoile.
My First Years As A Frenchwoman, 1876-1879 Waddington, Mary King 1914
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It is that, I suppose, as much as his hair, that recalls the Quartier Latin to my mind.
A Modern Utopia 1906
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Another advantage of the Quartier was the avoidance of the not uncommon friction between the civilians of the Foreign Office and the soldiers of the War Office.
The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers Francis Trevelyan Miller 1902
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This edifice has disappeared; but the part of the town where it was situated, or where, to speak more correctly, it was afterwards rebuilt, is still called the Quartier St. Thomas.
Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine Edward Harrison Barker 1885
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Propositioned as the most telling change is the controversial gentrification and redevelopment of the city's Latin Quarter, otherwise known as Quartier des Spectacles.
PopMatters 2009
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Fully half of what we consider "easy walking distance" or the radius of the "Quartier".
Olympic Line (short) closure notice « Stephen Rees's blog 2010
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Paris it is a Bohemian-looking denizen of the "Quartier" posing as a pinched genius forced to sell his crayon masterpieces for a couple of sous, whereas in London it is always a crippled ex-soldier trying to arouse your pity in chalked words for a "poor man's talent."
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