Example sentences for: palais-

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

  • 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).

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

  • 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.

  • East of the Palais-Royal, Les Halles was for centuries the site of the capital’s central food markets (now in a more spacious, if less colorful, location at Rungis, near Orly).

  • Across the river, 250 dealers are concentrated in the Louvre des Antiquaires, by the place du Palais-Royal, closed Monday (and Sunday in July and August), and other antiques dealers are scattered around Les Halles.


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