How To Use Faubourg In A Sentence
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This old faubourg, peopled like an ant-hill, laborious, courageous, and angry as a hive of bees, was quivering with expectation and with the desire for a tumult.
Les Miserables
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Having crossed Paris, it passed through the Faubourg DU Temple, then leaving the exterior boulevards, it reached the cemetery.
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The members of the society called the faubourg Saint-Germain protected the princess by a respectful silence due to her name, which is one of those that all men honor, to her misfortunes, which they ceased to discuss, and to her beauty, the only thing she saved of her departed opulence.
Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan
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A French journalist warned in 1831 that ‘the barbarians who threaten society are not in the Caucasus or the steppes of Tartary; they are in the faubourgs of our manufacturing towns’.
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Explore the many faubourgs (suburbs/neighborhoods) on foot, or take a leisurely stroll by the Mississippi.
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He had seen women of sixty, rouged, and jewelled, and furbelowed, foot it deftly in the halls of the Faubourg St. Germain in his earliest youth; and this cheery, healthy woman, with lingering blooms on either cheek, and uncapped head of curly black hair but slightly strewn with silver, seemed quite as fit a subject for the accomplishment.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861
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In 1806 the deputy surveyor of Orleans parish, Barthelemy Lafon, who had come to New Orleans from France in 1790, began planning the new faubourg that is now called the Lower Garden District.
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Workmen assembled at the corner of the Rue de Bercy, waited for a certain Lemarin, the revolutionary agent for the Faubourg Saint-Marceau.
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The cabarets of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine resemble those taverns of Mont Aventine erected on the cave of the Sibyl and communicating with the profound and sacred breath; taverns where the tables were almost tripods, and where was drunk what Ennius calls the sibylline wine.
Les Miserables, Volume IV, Saint Denis
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There he worked as an ouvrier amongst many other German woodworkers and cabinetmakers in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, and in 1881 he married the daughter of the German owner of the hostelery he resided in.
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The traders, shops, money changers and such were allowed to deal outside of the gates of the bourg or castle compound, in an area called a Faubourg.
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For the rest, the picturesque at Toulouse consists principally of the walk beside the Garonne, which is spanned, to the faubourg of Saint-Cyprien, by a stout brick bridge.
A Little Tour of France
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When that time came, the faubourg Saint – Germain still sulked, but it held intercourse with a few houses, regarding them as neutral ground, — among others that of the Austrian ambassador, where the legitimist society and the new social world met together in the persons of their best representatives.
A Daughter of Eve
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At the very sight of it, one felt the agonizing suffering in the immense faubourg, which had reached that point of extremity when a distress may become a catastrophe.
Les Miserables
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Immense but heroic defiance, for the old faubourg is a hero.
Les Miserables
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The faubourg shouldered the redoubt, the redoubt took its stand under cover of the faubourg.
Les Miserables
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I usually accompanied him and his father along the boulevards to his flat in the Faubourg St. Honore, and on that evening he could do nothing but exclaim, 'Mais, quelle gaite d'esprit, cher maitre!'
My Life — Volume 2
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It was 1 a.m., and things were just getting started in the Faubourg Marigny neighborhood, downriver from the French Quarter.
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He directed his course towards the faubourg Saint – Marceau and asked at the first shop he came to where he could find a commissary of police.
Les Miserables
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The Faubourg Saint-Germain may have its barriers also, but these are less ‘telling’ to the eyes and imagination of the ‘shabby-genteel.’
Within a Budding Grove
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The pompous procession therefore wended its way towards P è re - la - Chaise from the Faubourg Saint - Honor é .
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There had been a time when Chouteau, thanks to his facundity of the faubourg, had interested and almost convinced him, but now he had come to detest that apostle of falsehood, that snake in the grass, who calumniated honest effort of every kind in order to sicken others of it.
The Downfall
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Across the Seine, the whole of the ruined faubourg of St. Sever was under the command of John Holland, Earl of Huntingdon, whose business it was to guard the barbacan, or fortress at the south end of the bridge, and to keep up the English communications with the south of
The Story of Rouen
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So she played a game of make-believe in the rue du Faubourg Saint Honore.
YELLOW BIRD
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When the hour strikes, this man of the faubourgs will grow in stature; this little man will arise, and his gaze will be terrible, and his breath will become a tempest, and there will issue forth from that slender chest enough wind to disarrange the folds of the Alps. It is, thanks to the suburban man of
Les Miserables
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This man had the air of a person who is seeking lodgings, and he seemed to halt, by preference, at the most modest houses on that dilapidated border of the faubourg Saint – Marceau.
Les Miserables
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Foreshadowing the events of the coming French Revolution, Sébastien wrote, ‘The people in this faubourg are meaner, more volatile, more quarrelsome and more ready to mutiny than in any of the other quarters [of Paris].’
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Saint – Marceau quarter, the whole success which he produced is contained in this remark of an inhabitant of the faubourg to his comrade, “That big fellow yonder is the government.”
Les Miserables
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in Faubourg Sainte-Marie
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“The principal leaders,” as they said in the faubourg, held themselves apart.
Les Miserables
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For the last twenty years the station of the Orleans railway has stood beside the old faubourg and distracted it, as it does today.
Les Miserables
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He saw Cartoner turn out of the Cracow Faubourg into the square, where innumerable droskies stand.
The Vultures
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After that, we came back to the Barriere de l'Etoile, where she gave me a good 'pourboire' and got into a hackney coach, telling me to take the travelling carriage back to the man who lets such carriages in the Cour des Coches, Faubourg Saint-Honore.
The Lesser Bourgeoisie
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How could he desert a great devotion, for the coquetries of the faubourg Saint – Germain?
A Daughter of Eve
