Île de France

American  

[eel duh frahns] / il də ˈfrɑ̃s /

noun

1. a former province in northern France, including Paris and the region around it.

2. former name of Mauritius.

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Île-de-France British  

/ ildəfrɑ̃s /

noun

1. a region of N France, in the Paris Basin: part of the duchy of France in the 10th century

2. a former name (1715–1810) for Mauritius

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Example Sentences

Joseph of Île de France paired the De Fermo with pizza, after a day of hiking, and said he found it “grounding.”

From New York Times • Jan. 15, 2021

Jennifer and her friends in New York enjoyed the “smooth and velvety” schiava the best, but Joseph in Île de France found it too herbaceous, calling the schiava “my challenge.”

From New York Times • Aug. 29, 2019

Still, as the chef Yannick Alléno has deliciously proven with his lunch-only terroir de Paris menu featuring Île de France produce at Le Meurice, the region remains truffled with small producers of indigenous foods.

From New York Times • Nov. 22, 2010

Then she crossed the Atlantic on the liner Île de France and met William.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

I was intimately acquainted at Manila with some army officers, with whom I had gone from the Île de France to that city on board the “Bon-conseil.”

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 28 of 55 1637-38 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Blair, Emma Helen