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Map of the 17th arrondissement with the Quartier des Batignolles The Sainte-Marie des Batignolles Church, in the centre of Batignolles. Batignolles (French pronunciation:) is a neighbourhood of Paris, part of its 17th arrondissement. The neighbourhood is bounded on the south by the Boulevard des Batignolles, on the east by the Avenue de Clichy ...
a close relationship or connection; an affair. The French meaning is broader; liaison also means "bond"' such as in une liaison chimique (a chemical bond) lingerie a type of female underwear. littérateur an intellectual (can be pejorative in French, meaning someone who writes a lot but does not have a particular skill). [36] louche
Auteuil was originally a hamlet named Attolium [2] on the outskirts of Paris, built between the thirteenth and seventeenth centuries; it became a fashionable country retreat for French elites during the reign of Louis XV. Passy was dependent on the parish of Auteuil until 1761. [3] After the French Revolution, Auteuil became a commune of Seine ...
Centred on the capital Paris, it is located in the north-central part of the country and often called the Paris Region [3] (French: Région parisienne, pronounced [ʁeʒjɔ̃ paʁizjɛn]). Île-de-France is densely populated and retains a prime economic position on the national stage, and it covers 12,012 square kilometres (4,638 square miles ...
A map showing the twelve original arrondissements in 1795. The surrounding grey area shows the size of Paris after the expansion in 1860. On 11 October 1795, Paris was divided into twelve arrondissements. They were numbered from west to east. The numbers 1–9 were on the Right Bank of the Seine. The numbers were 10–12 on the Left Bank.
A less likely origin is the Celtic root *luco-t-, which means "mouse" and -ek(t)ia, double collective suffix, meaning "the mice" and which is contained in the Breton word logod, the Welsh llygod "mice", and the Irish luch, genitive luchad "mouse".
At first glance, the logo for the Paris Olympics appears to be a flame against a gold background. But look closer, open your mind a touch, and a new image will take shape. Olympic mystery solved ...
The word "bore" as a noun meaning a "thing which causes ennui or annoyance" is attested to since 1778; "of persons by 1812". The noun "bore" comes from the verb "bore", which had the meaning "[to] be tiresome or dull" first attested [in] 1768, a vogue word c. 1780 –81 according to Grose (1785); possibly a figurative extension of "to move ...