Béziers
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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“Despite everything that’s going on, he’s in control,” said Safia Lahmel, a 58-year-old woman in Béziers who said she is likely to vote for Macron.
From Washington Post • Apr. 5, 2022
Once a self-proclaimed “world capital of wine” that supplied cheap but decent vintages, Béziers lost its wealth when it became a primary target of European efforts to limit overproduction of wine in the 1980s.
From Washington Post • Apr. 5, 2022
The mayor of Béziers, Robert Ménard, is politically close to Marine Le Pen - and is friends with both her and Zemmour.
From BBC • Oct. 18, 2021
It was organized by a Catholic activist group and held in Béziers, a southern town whose famously provocative mayor, Robert Ménard, warmly welcomed the attendees.
From New York Times • Jun. 7, 2017
The Viscount of Béziers was not in the city from which he took his title when it fell.
From In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
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