Les Halles
Americannoun
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I was hungry, though, so I headed to Les Halles, the stunning steel-and-glass-covered market built in the beginning of the 20th century.
From Washington Post • Oct. 28, 2021
Police detained one suspect in the parking lot of the Les Halles shopping center in central Paris.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 7, 2021
But as Paris spread it took to burying the majority of its bodies in cemeteries within its bounds, notably in the main Cemetery of Saints-Innocents, near the central marketplace of Les Halles.
From The New Yorker • May 23, 2019
Toward the book’s end, Bourdain recalls the time he traveled to Japan to help train the chefs at the new Les Halles Tokyo.
From Slate • Jun. 8, 2018
It is a beautiful Gothic tower, on an antique building known as Les Halles, or The Market, a part of which was intended for a meat market, and a part for a cloth hall.
From Dikes and Ditches Young America in Holland and Belguim by Optic, Oliver
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