Fort-de-France
Americannoun
noun
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On Tuesday Fort-de-France Mayor Didier Laguerre acknowledged that people in Martinique - a territory of 350,000 people - were struggling: “I understand the suffering and anger.”
From BBC • Oct. 11, 2024
The fleet is due to arrive in Fort-de-France, Martinique, around Nov. 25.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 11, 2021
Texaco takes its name from the shantytown they construct after the war, a sprawl of crate-wood hutches hard by the oil tanks that fuel the capital city of Fort-de-France.
From The Guardian • Oct. 15, 2015
I was schooled during a tour of La Favorite, near the island’s capital, Fort-de-France.
From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2014
Morning showed an even brighter Fort-de-France, for, though when St. Pierre was in its glory, Fort-de-France was the lesser town, the capital now is the center of the commercial prosperity of the island.
From Plotting in Pirate Seas by Federer, C. A. (Charles A.)
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