parisien

Example Sentences

• "The next day being Sunday, Wobble gave an exhibition performance on his bicycle in the Jardin d’Acclimatation, in accordance with a special request from the managers of that popular institution. Thousands of Parisiens and Parisiennes flocked there to see it, and they applauded avec beaucoup d’enthusiasme."
• "[…] while the merry-go-rounds, toy-stalls and gingerbread kiosks, beloved of little Parisiens and Parisiennes, must have been swept away in dozens."
• "Rather, it is transmitted by him, for it came originally, so we learn, from a young boy of a French lieutenant, home on leave, and smiling with dreamy happiness over a café-table at the endless procession of clean, neatly drest Parisiens and Parisiennes passing by on the other side."
• "“Some time after midnight,” he went to the Seine because he wanted to see it before the floods abated. The following morning he rubbed shoulders with Parisiens and Parisiennes of all kinds, shapes and sizes as he went about in the pouring rain “to do some shopping.”"
• "The Parisiens and Parisiennes seemed to have adopted the war like a new craze. Women dressed themselves in artistic caricatures of military uniforms, soldiers were admitted half-price to the cinemas, those wearing the distinctive badge of the Maginot Line were heroes."
• "It was the old Paris, the Paris of the Revolutions, with its multiplicity of little streets and small squares, its lively Parisiens and Parisiennes."