maire
Example Sentences
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Cracked a foreign diplomat in expectant Washington: "Us ne passeront pas devant le maire* but there will be a common-law marriage."
From Time Magazine Archive
Alas! there has been an accident, m'sieur le maire!
From Studies in love and in terror by Marie Belloc Lowndes
The first member in dignity was the "maire" or mayor, selected by the Seneschal of Saintonge from the list of three candidates yearly nominated by his fellow-members.
From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 by Henry Martyn Baird
But he's the maire, and one can't quarrel with him.'
From Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands by Charles James Lever
As I am the maire, I must wait for news.
From Riviera Towns by Herbert Adams Gibbons
