Auxerre

/ ozɛr /

noun

1. a town in central France, capital of Yonne department; Gothic cathedral. Pop: 37 790 (1999)

Example Sentences

After losing 4-0 to Auxerre in the French Cup fourth round – Arteta’s debut for the club – they finished bottom of their second-round group in the Champions League and only narrowly clinched a top-half finish on the final day of the season.

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With the prospect of finding who had killed Miss Parrish fading, her parents kept up pressure on the authorities and visited Auxerre regularly.

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Miss Parrish, from Newnham-on-Severn in Gloucestershire, had been working as a teaching assistant at a school in Auxerre in France when in May 1990, just a fortnight before she was due to finish, she placed an advert in a local paper offering English lessons.

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Crucially for Miss Parrish's case, it was revealed ahead of his first conviction that Fourniret had lived close to Auxerre at the time she was murdered.

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Miss Parrish's body was found the next morning in the River Yonne, at Moneteau, not far from Auxerre.

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