Yvelines
Americannoun
noun
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For example Riyad Mahrez, a former African player of the year, was born in Clichy, France, but plays for Algeria, while Senegal’s Ibrahim Mbaye is from Trappes, Yvelines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
"It costs us less to give these potatoes to Parisians than to store them ourselves," Denis Lavenant, a farmer from the Yvelines region, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026
Two more departments - the Yvelines west of Paris, and Savoie in the east - have activated low-level pre-alert "vigilance."
From Reuters ● Mar. 6, 2023
On Monday, police said an investigating judge had signed the order for the six people from the Yvelines department, in Paris’s western suburbs, to be taken into custody.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 9, 2018
He also criticized the Gaullist regime for failing to provide adequate schools and transport for satellite communities like Les Yvelines.
From Time Magazine Archive
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