Looking for sentences and phrases with the word faubourg? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
The traders, shops, money changers and such were allowed to deal outside of the gates of the bourg or castle compound, in an area called a Faubourg.
The affluent style of her boudoir suggests Balzacian Plassy or even the Bois de Boulogne rather than the Faubourg Montmartre.
Examples from Classical Literature
She led her husband by the noise, said the people of the faubourg of Plassans.
In a tavern of the faubourg he made the acquaintance of a basket-maker who worked at home.
Once the faubourg Saint-Germain was conquered, all the others would follow.
The inscription on the frieze, at the side of the faubourg, is the same repeated.
The deafening noises of the faubourg sounded like bells in their ears.
So they returned by the Boulevards and the faubourg du Poissonniers.
But the houses soon grew fewer, and they reached the end of the faubourg.
Was this a sign of approaching death, as the women of the faubourg said?
There will be deep murmurings to-night in the Muscovite faubourg.
We repaired at once to a small house I had taken in the faubourg nearest to that part of the city where the scene of our avocations lay.
In those days the Cafe Ture was the rendezvous of the fashionable society of the Marais, the faubourg Saint-Antoine, and the circumjacent regions.
Moreover, the child was a wildling, like himself, and they were of the same mind in hating all the gossips of the Faubourg.
Upon their road, at the end of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, they overtook the humble equipage of Vatel, who was quietly conveying home his vin de Joigny.
The pompous procession therefore wended its way towards Pere-la-Chaise from the Faubourg Saint-Honore.
She directed her course towards the Faubourg Saint Germain, went down the Rue Mazarine, and stopped at the Passage du Pont-Neuf.
