Aix-en-Provence

[ek-sahn-praw-vahns, eyks-ahn-pruh-vahns]

noun

1. a city in SE France, N of Marseilles.

Aix-en-Provence

/ ɛksɑ̃prɔvɑ̃s /

noun

1. Also called: Aix. a city and spa in SE France: the medieval capital of Provence. Pop: 134 222 (1999)

Example Sentences

Prisons in Toulon, Aix-En-Provence, Marseille, Valence and Nîmes in southern France, and in Villepinte and Nanterre, near Paris were among those targeted.

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The newspaper lists six establishments as being targeted: in Toulon, Aix-en-Provence and Marseille, Valence and Nîmes, Luynes, Villepinte, and Nanterre.

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Nine years ago, Haïm was the conductor in a highly provocative staging of “Il Trionfo” at the summer Aix-en-Provence festival that included a filmed clip of the French theorist Jacques Derrida, who was sometimes accused of doing to literary studies what Boulez had done to music, and vice versa.

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In a statement, Aix-en-Provence chief prosecutor Jean-Luc Blachon said that Tuesday's arrests were the result of investigations carried out over recent months, and that police were examining "several spots in the area".

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It has since triumphed at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence before arriving Oct.

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