Bois de Boulogne

[bwah duh boo-lohn, bwah d^uh boo-lawn-y^uh]

noun

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

Bois de Boulogne

/ bwa də bulɔɲ /

noun

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

Example Sentences

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.

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The body of the young woman, named only as Philippine, was found on Saturday, half-buried in the Bois de Boulogne park on the western edge of the capital.

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"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.

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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.

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

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