Quai d'Orsay
Americannoun
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the quay along the south bank of the Seine in Paris, on which are located the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other French government offices.
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the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
noun
Example Sentences
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But now a cadre of bureaucrats in Paris’s gilded Quai d’Orsay are ditching their carefully worded communiqués in favor of a stream of real-time X posts that mix self-mockery and sarcasm…in English.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
A protest is planned near the imposing French foreign ministry complex known as the Quai d’Orsay, on the River Seine.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 1, 2022
The strike on June 2 would be only the second in the history of Quai d’Orsay — the Paris location of the foreign service that is the shorthand for the institution.
From New York Times ● May 31, 2022
French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov attend a joint news conference after a meeting at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris, France, November 27, 2018.
From Reuters ● Feb. 21, 2022
I shared a taxi back from the Quai d'Orsay with Woolsey and Krum.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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