maire
Example Sentences
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Cracked a foreign diplomat in expectant Washington: "Us ne passeront pas devant le maire* but there will be a common-law marriage."
From Time Magazine Archive
I said that m'sieur le maire ought to be informed at once of such a calamity.
From Studies in love and in terror by Lowndes, Marie Belloc
M. Richard, the maire of La Villette, attempts similar experiments with animal offal, which M. Dumas, the great savant, declares highly satisfactory.
From An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections by Albert D.
My first business in the morning was to find out and report myself to the maire.
From Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War by Collingwood, Harry
He was minister of war in 1792, and maire de Paris 1793.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
