metro

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She no longer felt the sense of suffocation that had come over her in the métro, and a little while before at the Barbès-Rochechouart crossroads at the sight of the motionless soldiers and policemen.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 5, 2015

The first book we were assigned was Queneau’s Zazie dans le métro.

From Time • Nov. 28, 2012

Queneau, best known for his novel Zazie dans le métro, was part of the surrealist movement in the 1920s, later becoming a publisher for Gallimard.

From The Guardian • Apr. 26, 2010

As they would today, public transit networks suffered—the métro, only 10 years old, was lost for three months.

From Newsweek • Jan. 21, 2010

“Quand je vais dans le métro, je fais aussi de la musique de prouts.”

From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green