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  • The name Dong quai translates as "return to order" based on its alleged restorative properties.

    Find Me A Cure 2008

  • On the corner of this house, which stood at the angle of the pont au Change and the quai now called the quai aux Fleurs, the architect had constructed a little shrine for a Madonna, which was always lighted by wax-tapers and decked with real flowers in summer and artificial ones in winter.

    Catherine De Medici Honor�� de Balzac 1824

  • Musée du quai Branly A sculpture from the Dogon culture.

    Don't Miss: April 2-8 2011

  • Request one of the "City K" rooms with a king size bed. • 96 quai de Jemmapes, 10th, +33 1 8362 5550, lecitizenhotel.com.

    10 of the best boutique hotels on Paris's Right Bank 2011

  • Le Point Ephémère 200 quai de Valmy, pointephemere.org is a little venue that plays good underground bands like Esben and the Witch.

    Insider's guide to musical pilgrimages: Indie, shoe gaze, grunge, metal 2011

  • The tools are more basic than at most places—regular forks stand in for long fondue utensils—but the crowds don't seem to care. 30 quai du Mont-Blanc, Geneva, buvettedesbains.ch

    Switzerland's Best Fondue Christina Passariello 2011

  • An intereseting story in todays MoS about the sinister development of ACPO into a representative body for chief police officers into a multi-national quai-police force private company.

    The Customer Is Always Right « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • Above anything, Chantal Ackerman's 201-minute 1975 film Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, is.

    The real housewife 2009

  • Paris Fear of the Other musée du quai Branly, photo Patrick Gries, Bruno Descoings Nito, woman Yogo, on show in Paris.

    What's On Around Europe 2011

  • However this clearly isn't a 'quai-judicial' decision, it is a policy decision.

    Isn't the British constitution great? 2009

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