Quai d'Orsay

American  

[ke dawr-se, kay dawr-say, kway] / kɛ dɔrˈsɛ, ˈkeɪ dɔrˈseɪ, ˈkweɪ /

noun

1. the quay along the south bank of the Seine in Paris, on which are located the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other French government offices.

2. the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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Quai d'Orsay British  

/ ke dɔrsɛ /

noun

1. the quay along the S bank of the Seine, Paris, where the French foreign office is situated

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Quai d'Orsay

But now a cadre of bureaucrats in Paris’s gilded Quai d’Orsay are ditching their carefully worded communiqués in favor of a stream of real-time X posts that mix self-mockery and sarcasm…in English.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026

This will be the third time he has been summoned to the French Quai d’Orsay in the past three and a half years.

From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2023

She is the first woman to head the Quai d’Orsay, the plush headquarters of French diplomacy on the banks of the Seine River, since Michèle Alliot-Marie’s short stint as foreign minister ended in February 2011.

From Seattle Times ● May 20, 2022

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov attend a joint news conference after a meeting at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris, France, November 27, 2018.

From Reuters ● Feb. 21, 2022

I shared a taxi back from the Quai d'Orsay with Woolsey and Krum.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

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