Sentence examples for french enclave from inspiring English sources

When much of the coastal plain was incorporated into the Madras Presidency (British colonial administrative unit) in 1765, Yanam remained a French enclave.

He stoutly defended Madras against the French in 1758 59, and, after the capture of Pondicherry (a former French enclave on the southeast coast; now Puducherry) by Lieut.

The place is like a dream, and its survival as a French enclave as late as 1969 is neither explained nor justified.

The opening of the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle in September 2008 has helped transform the area into something of a French enclave, drawing brasseries, boulangeries and wine stores.

He's Piscine Molitor Patel (Irrfan Khan), a philosophy teacher, and he tells the curious story of his own extraordinary life, beginning as the son of a zookeeper in Pondicherry, the French enclave in India that wasn't ceded until 1954.

In many of the city's Japanese and Italian restaurants and even at a French enclave as punctilious as L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon, you can build meals incrementally, with modestly portioned dishes.

Many years later, the Australian granddaughter of little Alex Balcombe, Dame Mabel Brookes, bought the area of now-vanished Briars and the still-standing Pavilion and presented it as a gift to France – it is now one of a number of small French enclaves on the island.

An hour further takes you to the French Huguenot enclave of Franshoek, a self-declared gastronomic paradise, with vineyard valley views and a host of wonderful wineries and restaurants.

Brussels, a largely French-speaking enclave in the Flemish area, is particularly contested.

Historically in North America's French-speaking enclave, separatism subsides when the economy rises.

The subjects include the city's 722-mile subway system, a literary enclave of French intellectuals in 1940's Manhattan and a quarantine of Eastern European Jews during an outbreak of typhus and cholera in 1892.