maire
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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
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
He was minister of war in 1792, and maire de Paris 1793.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
I said that m'sieur le maire ought to be informed at once of such a calamity.
From Studies in love and in terror by Marie Belloc Lowndes
M. Richard, the maire of La Villette, attempts similar experiments with animal offal, which M. Dumas, the great savant, declares highly satisfactory.
From An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections by Albert D.
