Folies Bergère
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Folies Bergère
< French: the Bergère Follies, after rue Bergère, a street near which it was originally located
Example Sentences
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She bid Paris adieu and sashayed to Las Vegas, where she starred in the Folies Bergère revue.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026
Baker’s star continued to rise, shifting from the Revue to her own show at the Folies Bergère in 1926, and rising to icon status among the Parisian cognoscenti — Hemingway, Stein, Picasso, all big fans.
From Washington Post • Nov. 10, 2022
Macron’s timing for this show at the Panthéon was as deliberate as that chosen for Baker’s shows at the Folies Bergère.
From Slate • Jan. 18, 2022
Manet's late Un Bar aux Folies Bergère hung over Chabrier's piano; it is nice to think of the mercurial musician looking up as he played.
From The Guardian • Jan. 12, 2013
That evening he went again to the Folies Bergère in the hope of finding the mysterious woman, for he was now more than ever anxious to discover who she was.
From Masterpieces of Mystery Riddle Stories by French, Joseph Lewis
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