bourgs
- plural of bourg.
Example Sentences
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Revolutionary Committees in the small communes.—Municipal bodies lukewarm in the villages.—Jacobins too numerous in bourgs and small towns.
From The French Revolution - Volume 3 by Durand, John
Maîche is a good specimen of the large, flourishing villages, or bourgs, found in these parts, and a greater contrast with those of Brittany cannot be conceived.
From Holidays in Eastern France by Betham-Edwards, Matilda
It was of the Gothic of the bourgs, less elaborated and more rudely wrought than that of the larger towns, but quaint, and, the population considered, vast.
From Recollections of Europe by Cooper, James Fenimore
Pirial, the bourgs of Batz and Le Croisic, exactly resembling each other, attracted and suspended his attention.
From Ten Years Later by Dumas père, Alexandre
This reservoir in each department or district is the Jacobin nursery of the principal town; from this, they are sent into the bourgs and communes of the conscription.
From The French Revolution - Volume 3 by Durand, John
