Example sentences for: rue

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

  • Most of the couture houses are concentrated on the Right Bank close by the rue du Faubourg-St-Honoré (just “le Faubourg” to regular shoppers) and classier avenue Montaigne where designers Christian Lacroix, Chanel, Calvin Klein, Hermès, Christian Dior, Yves Saint Laurent, and Versace have shops.

  • With second- and third-generation prosperity, most of the Jews have moved on from the rue St-Urbain neighborhood made famous by the writings of Mordecai Richler (The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz) to make way gradually for an equally colorful Portuguese community.

  • Jews have lived around the rue des Rosiers for centuries, and the rue Ferdinand Duval was known until 1900 as the rue des Juifs.

  • Among the historic houses on rue du Marché-Champlain, Maison Chevalier (1752) has become a museum of old Québécois furniture and domestic utensils.

  • Also on the rue des Francs-Bourgeois, Hôtel Carnavalet, once home of the lady of letters, Madame de Sévigné, is today the Musée Carnavalet (see page 75).


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