The word "boulevard" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a wide street in a city, typically one with trees or flower beds along its edges. For example: "We walked along the boulevard, admiring the trees and flowers that lined it."
The same might well be said of La Santé prison, which looms so large and menacingly over the urinal and the boulevard.
Strolling down Sofia's pedestrianised, bar-lined central boulevard with mist-shrouded Mount Vitosha looming in the distance, Dimitar Daskalov, a 28 year-old who works in quality assurance for a Canadian company, is pessimistic about the election.
Officially known as the "crisis work", the art piece has attracted a steady flow of spectators to the place where it has been erected, in the shadow of a bridge on the boulevard that connects Athens to the sea.
Some drove their pink-and-white cabs in ranks, snarling traffic along the city's main boulevard.
9 boulevard Maritime, Barneville-Carteret, +33 2 3304 9076, hoteldesisles.com, doubles from €99 The famous D-Day coastline boasts some of Normandy's most splendid beaches, still known by their coded wartime names – Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno.
Shop tactics Stars who want to be seen to be shopping head for Rodeo Drive, LA's blingiest boulevard.
The last vespasienne left standing in Paris stands on the Boulevard Arago just beneath the walls of La Santé prison.
One of the lingering charms of the Left Bank of Paris in the 21st century is that, although much of the area has long since surrendered to chain stores and fast-food joints, the streets between Boulevard Saint-Michel and rue Mouffetard are still dotted with fleapit cinemas with names such as L'Accattone, Studio Galande and Le Champo.
Chinese traders have taken over the main thoroughfare of the Senegalese capital, Dakar, which is now known as Boulevard Mao.
Its chances this time will be boosted by the fact that the Champs Elysées is an even better location than was Boulevard Haussmann.
If it's rock'n'roll royalty you're after or if you want to get friendly with Benicio Del Toro in the lift - as Scarlett Johansson is rumoured to have done last year - head to Chateau Marmont on Sunset Boulevard (00 1 323 656 1010; www.chateaumarmont.com).
