Crossword clues for bercy
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bercy \Ber"cy\ n. a sauce prepared from butter creamed with white wine, shallots, parsley and fish stock; -- also called Bercy sauce.
Syn: Bercy butter.
Wikipedia
Bercy is a station of the Paris Métro, serving lines 6 and 14 at the intersection of the Boulevard de Bercy and the Rue de Bercy in the neighbourhood of Bercy and the 12th arrondissement.
Bercy is a neighborhood in the 12th arrondissement of Paris. It is the city's 47th administrative neighborhood.
- Bercy is an area of south east Paris.
Bercy may also refer to other things in the Bercy area:
- Bercy is an area of south east
- Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy, a sports stadium
- Gare de Bercy, a station specialising in auto-trains
- Bercy (Paris Métro)
- Pont de Bercy, a bridge over the Seine
- Minister of the Economy, Finances and Industry (France), the French Finance Ministry, which is located in Bercy.
Usage examples of "bercy".
At last the President, rising in his place, read the pronouncement of the Court: that Detricand, Prince of Vaufontaine, be declared true inheritor of the duchy of Bercy, the nations represented here confirming him in his title.
Duc de Bercy, was set upon a vast rock, and the town of Bercy huddled round the foot of it and on great granite ledges some distance up.
It was now his one ambition to arrange a new succession excluding the Vaufontaines, a detested branch of the Bercy family.
He said the last words slowly, for, whatever else he was, he was a loyal English sailor, and he wished the Duc de Bercy to know it, the more convincingly the better for the part he was going to play in this duchy, if all things favoured.
Philip argued that if it was his duty, as a captain in the English navy, to fight against the revolutionaries from without, he would be beyond criticism if, as the Duc de Bercy, he also fought against them from within.
Of gallant bearing, he was attired in a fashion unlike the citizens of Bercy, or the Republican military often to be seen in the streets of the town.
He had now come from the splendid victory at Saumur to urge his kinsman, the Duc de Bercy, to join the Royalists.
But for himself, now heir to the principality of Vaufontaine, and therefrom, by reversion, to that of Bercy, it had no importance.
If the Duc de Bercy declares for us, others will come out of exile, and from submission to the rebel government, to our aid.
The duchy of Bercy may sink or swim for all of me, if so be it does not stand with us in our holy war.
The Duc de Bercy to be harangued to his duty, scathed, measured, disapproved, and counselled, by a stripling Vaufontaine--it was monstrous.
Then they had been friends, for his uncle of Vaufontaine had had a small estate in Bercy itself, in ironical proximity to the castle.
From interest in these matters alone Detricand would not have remained at Bercy, but he thought to use the time for secretly meeting officers of the duchy likely to favour the cause of the Royalists.
His friend the innkeeper urged him not to attend the meeting of the States of Bercy, lest he should be recognised by spies of government.
Duc de Bercy will not forbid the presence of his cousin, Detricand de Tournay, at this impressive ceremony?