Example sentences for: palais-

How can you use “palais-” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Geographically if not temperamentally part of the Left Bank, the Palais-Bourbon is the seat of the Assemblée Nationale (parliament).

  • The Palais-Royal, across the rue de Rivoli from the Louvre, was built as Cardinal Richelieu’s residence in 1639 (it became “royal” when Anne of Austria moved in with young Louis XIV).

  • Next to the Palais-Royal stands the Banque de France, east of the garden (and landlord of most of its apartments), and the Bibliothèque Nationale (National Library), just to the north.

  • In the days of Philippe d’Orléans, Prince Regent while Louis XV was a child, the Palais-Royal was the scene of notorious orgies.

  • On 13 July 1789 a young firebrand orator, Camille Desmoulins, stood on a table at the Palais-Royal’s Café de Foy to sound a call to arms.


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