Bois de Boulogne

American  

[bwah duh boo-lohn, bwah d^uh boo-lawn-y^uh] / ˈbwɑ də buˈloʊn, bwɑ də buˈlɔn yə /

noun

1. a park W of Paris, France. 2095 acres (850 hectares).

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Bois de Boulogne British  

/ bwa də bulɔɲ /

noun

1. a large park in W Paris, formerly a forest: includes the racecourses of Auteuil and Longchamp

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Example Sentences

When it opened in the fall of 2014 in a quiet corner of the Bois de Boulogne, the large park on the west side of Paris, it suggested a newly refined, even urbane direction in Gehry’s late work.

From Los Angeles Times

As we sit together in a vast gallery at the Louis Vuitton Foundation, a stunning museum designed in reflective glass on the edge of the Bois de Boulogne in Paris, I ask him what he thinks of the exhibition.

From BBC

"When I started, I was scouting a lot in the Paris area but now it's starting to be impossible," says Jennifer Mendelewitsch, an agent from Supernova Management, based in the Bois de Boulogne in western Paris.

From BBC

To mount a Rothko retrospective of this scale — there are 115 works at the Fondation Vuitton, spanning all four floors of its Frank Gehry-designed glass schooner in the Bois de Boulogne — is a far heavier lift than it was in 1998, now that costs have reached such extremes that almost no public museum could afford it.

From New York Times

He later moved to a retirement home in the west of Paris, adjacent to the Bois de Boulogne park.

From New York Times