(1) De Bruijn also described the attack on Facebook: "Last night, in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, Olivier and I were badly beaten up just for walking arm in arm.
(2) Investigators are also considering whether he planned to carry out his own suicide attack in the 18th arrondissement of the French capital, and perhaps backed out.
(3) The three men - described by a police union spokesman as “commandos” – are on the run after walking into the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris’s 11th arrondissement at about midday on Wednesday and fleeing in a getaway car driven by a fourth.
(4) Paris’s 10th and 11th arrondissements are full on Fridays, and home also to the Bataclan, a pagoda-like theatre painted in vivid yellows, reds and citruses, which looms over the Boulevard Voltaire like an eccentric aunt.
(5) - video explainer An Isis statement about the evening’s bloodshed claimed an attack in the 18th arrondissement, where none took place, but investigators did find a suicide belt and car linked to Abdeslam.
(6) Tour Montparnasse, Paris Photograph: Steven Strehl When it opened in 1973, towering over the 14th and 15th arrondissements in the south of the capital, almost no one had a good word to say about the first – and only – skyscraper to rise in central Paris.
(7) He has already indicated that we would rather live with Trierweiler in their modest nondescript flat in Paris's 15th arrondissement with its Ikea furniture than the 370-room Elysée Palace with its private cinema and 900 staff, including white-gloved factotums who set the pendulums on its scores of gold clocks.
(8) The 16th arrondissement of Paris has only around 2.5% of its properties designated as council housing, far short of the 20% required by law.
(9) Television cameraman Charles Pitt said he was outside a cafe in the city’s 11th arrondissement where people were shot at about 9.10pm.
(10) At Aux Délices du Palais, customers in the long queue snaking to the door in the 14th arrondissement agreed that Teixeira and his family made exceedingly good bread, not to mention excellent macarons – for which they have also won prizes – and mouthwatering pâtisserie.
(11) Le Bataclan, in the 11th arrondissement, was hosting a show by Eagles of Death Metal in front of a crowd of around 1,500 when three terrorists armed with assault rifles entered the room and began shooting and throwing hand grenades.
(12) The following year, we were away for eight months – Ben was offered a post-doctoral fellowship in Italy and, when that finished, we moved to Paris because it was cheaper to rent an Airbnb property in the 20th arrondissement and commute to London once a week via Eurostar than it was to rent a flat in as good a location as our place in the UK.
(13) A fter a midnight appearance on stage among rock singers and party stalwarts at Paris's Bastille to address the crowds gathered to celebrate his election, François Hollande , who has so far stayed true to his "Mr Normal" reputation, arrived back at his nondescript, modern apartment building in Paris's 15th arrondissement at 2am, ready to start work as France's new president-elect.
(14) The well-developed community psychiatric services in the 13th Arrondissement use a large number of places in sheltered accommodation.
(15) Photograph: AP After allegedly dropping three of the suicide bombers off at the Stade de France on the 13 November, he headed for the Place Albert Kahn in the 18th arrondissement of the French capital, where he bought a mobile phone sim card at about 10pm.
(16) It is significant that in the omnibus film Paris Vu Par … (Six in Paris, 1964), Chabrol's episode takes place in the upmarket 16th arrondissement with Chabrol himself playing the self-satisfied père de famille .
(17) He introduced into his beautiful capital trees and flowers, and populated it with statues.” Story of cities #13: Barcelona's unloved planner invents science of 'urbanisation' Read more Today, Haussmann is remembered by the grand boulevard that bears his name, on which the Palais Garnier sits, and a statue on its corner with Rue de Laborde in the 8th Arrondissement.
(18) In the summer, two miles (3.3km) of highway from the Tuileries in the 1st arrondissement and the Arsenal port near Bastille in the 4th arrondissement along the right bank of the Seine were closed to traffic.
(19) They were panicked, wounded, screaming, blood was running all over them, people were having panic attacks, it was horrific.” The bar was locked down but after police allowed it to reopen, she began running down the street towards the 3rd arrondissement to get away as fast as possible.
(20) After a few minutes he ventured gingerly out into the street in Paris’s 10th arrondissement, packed minutes earlier with diners, revellers, and friends enjoying an end of week beer.
Canton
Definition:
(n.) A song or canto
(n.) A small portion; a division; a compartment.
(n.) A small community or clan.
(n.) A small territorial district; esp. one of the twenty-two independent states which form the Swiss federal republic; in France, a subdivision of an arrondissement. See Arrondissement.
(n.) A division of a shield occupying one third part of the chief, usually on the dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line from the top of the shield, meeting a horizontal line from the side.
(v. i.) To divide into small parts or districts; to mark off or separate, as a distinct portion or division.
(v. i.) To allot separate quarters to, as to different parts or divisions of an army or body of troops.
Example Sentences:
(1) In almost all the cantons the consent of the parents is necessary.
(2) Member, Canton and Riverside Division, Cardiff, St. John Ambulance.
(3) I sat there thinking that in Canton we never had time to sleep, much less dream.” The late Edward Kennedy called it “the great aria of the civil rights movement”.
(4) A new allele of white-coral (wco2) was isolated from Canton S after mutagenesis.
(5) Most immediately in Zurich is the likely publication of a settlement made in court in the Swiss canton of Zug, in connection with alleged bribes paid to senior Fifa officials in the late 1990s by the marketing company ISL.
(6) Crude and relative survival rates were analyzed using data from 4,199 incident breast cancers in females and 39 breast cancers in males registered between 1974 and 1988 in the Cancer Registry of the Swiss Canton of Vaud.
(7) The follow-up sample consisted of 841 men in the Canton of Zurich who had been selected from a complete survey of men born in 1952.
(8) Separation forces were tested with an Instron machine (Instron Corp., Canton, Mass.).
(9) In the Canton of Graubunden, 33% of the 13-15 year old pupils and 34% of those aged 17-19 from a total of 166 smoked regularly or occasionally; none of the younger, but 8% of the older pupils had already tried drugs once.
(10) The authors study the various aspects of the 484 attempts of suicide examined over the year 1974 at the Psychiatric Policlinic of the Geneva Cantonal Hospital.
(11) Angry demonstrations over the government’s refusal to relieve Kobani , the Syrian canton under siege from the brutal group calling itself Islamic State (Isis), led to a spate of deaths.
(12) In the first survey, based on representative population samples, blood lead level was measured in the cantons of Vaud and Fribourg.
(13) Four spines were mounted in an Instron machine (Instron Engineering Corp., Canton, MA).
(14) We are redeploying 25km [outside Juba] but even if it is one battalion remaining and again they clash, is it really difficult to come back to Juba?” While the cantonment of troops may be a first step to end fighting, fundamental reforms of the security sector are needed to professionalise an army notorious for lack of discipline, human rights abuses and tribalism.
(15) At a lower level, France has the level of "canton."
(16) All renal allotransplants performed at the Cantonal Hospital, Zurich, in 1975 and 1976 were analysed with respect to pre-transplant blood transfusions, excluding secondary transplants, patients on dialysis outside of Switzerland, combined renal and pancreatic transplants, and women with previous pregnancies but without transfusions.
(17) Between 1978 and 1984, the University Hospital of Geneva (Hôpital Cantonal Universitaire) received 46 head injured patients who "talked and died" after their brain insult.
(18) (And even in Switzerland the tax policies vary canton by canton, and are regularly put to the vote.)
(19) The purpose of the present epidemiological study is to investigate and describe panic disorder and sporadic panic attacks among a cohort of young adults, aged 28 years, from the Canton of Zurich in Switzerland.
(20) Velásquez, 23, had been terrified by stories linking Zika to birth defects , so on Christmas Day she drove 25 miles south from the semi-rural canton of Aguilares to the nearest public hospital in the capital, San Salvador.