Folies Bergère
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Folies Bergère
< French: the Bergère Follies, after rue Bergère, a street near which it was originally located
Example Sentences
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She bid Paris adieu and sashayed to Las Vegas, where she starred in the Folies Bergère revue.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026
She was both the very famous star of Paris’s Folies Bergère and an icon of the Art Nouveau movement, with an eye toward the possibilities abstraction held for dance.
From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2024
Baker’s star continued to rise, shifting from the Revue to her own show at the Folies Bergère in 1926, and rising to icon status among the Parisian cognoscenti — Hemingway, Stein, Picasso, all big fans.
From Washington Post • Nov. 10, 2022
Macron’s timing for this show at the Panthéon was as deliberate as that chosen for Baker’s shows at the Folies Bergère.
From Slate • Jan. 18, 2022
So, after consulting the daily amusement calendar, he decided to visit the Folies Bergère, which he had heard of as one of the notable sights.
From Masterpieces of Mystery Riddle Stories by French, Joseph Lewis
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