Example sentences for: provence

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

  • August: Annecy, fireworks by the lake; Chartres, organ recitals in cathedral, Assumption Day procession and Mass; Aix-en-Provence, jazz; Colmar, wine fair; Le Touquet, chamber music

  • On a steep and twisted cobbled street in Provence, I recently saw a beautiful young woman with a heavy baby in her arms.

  • By allowing the local pride of such historic regions as Provence, Normandy, Brittany, and Langue­doc to reassert itself, France demonstrated that it was at last secure in its national identity — so secure that French citizens even began carrying European passports.

  • July: Avignon, international theater, music, opera, dance, and cinema; Aix-en-Provence, opera; Arles, photography seminars, exhibitions, and audiovisual shows in amphitheater; Montpellier, music, opera, and dance (starts last week in June); Orange, opera in the amphitheater; Nice jazz; Bayonne, folklore; Paris, Festival Estival (music and theater; till September); La Rochelle, Francopholies (music festival); Prades Festival Pablo Casals (chamber music; until mid-August)

  • In 125 b.c. , the Romans came in force, conquered the “Gallic barbarians,” and set up a fortress at Aquae Sextiae (Aix-en-Provence).


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