Bois de Boulogne

[ bwah duh boo-lohn; French bwah duh boo-lawn-yuh ]

noun

1. a park W of Paris, France. 2095 acres (850 hectares).

Bois de Boulogne

/ bwa də bulɔɲ /

noun

1. a large park in W Paris, formerly a forest: includes the racecourses of Auteuil and Longchamp

Example Sentences

The body of the young woman, named only as Philippine, was found on Saturday, half-buried in the Bois de Boulogne park on the western edge of the capital.

From BBC

"When I started, I was scouting a lot in the Paris area but now it's starting to be impossible," says Jennifer Mendelewitsch, an agent from Supernova Management, based in the Bois de Boulogne in western Paris.

From BBC

To mount a Rothko retrospective of this scale — there are 115 works at the Fondation Vuitton, spanning all four floors of its Frank Gehry-designed glass schooner in the Bois de Boulogne — is a far heavier lift than it was in 1998, now that costs have reached such extremes that almost no public museum could afford it.

From New York Times

He later moved to a retirement home in the west of Paris, adjacent to the Bois de Boulogne park.

From New York Times

In 1986 he took a 50-year lease on the home of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, in the Bois de Boulogne in Paris, and spent a reputed $14 million on restoring the home to its previous splendor.

From New York Times