What is "gentilly"

Usage examples of "gentilly".

His château, situated just outside Gentilly, stood empty, it having been given out that the widow Sucy and her two children had escaped to England.

And the following morning at daybreak, Gourdon, who was only a subordinate officer on the Committee of Public Safety, took it upon himself to institute a perquisition in the château of Gentilly, which is situated close to the commune of that name.

All that the Committee knew for certain was that you and Tournefort and a number of men had arrived at Gentilly before daybreak, and I was then instructed to follow you hither to see what mischief you were up to.

Twenty minutes later Tournefort, who was riding ahead of his companions, spied a tall, stooping figure at the spot where the Chemin de Gentilly forks, and where stands a group of isolated houses and bits of garden, which belong to la Santé.

He could hear cars honking occasionally on distant Gentilly Road, and on nearer park drives.

Ivry, Gentilly, Arcueil, Belleville, Aubervilliers, Menilmontant, Choisy-le-Roi, Billancourt, Meudon, Issy, Vanvre, Sèvres, Puteaux, Neuilly, Gennevilliers, Colombes, Romainville, Chatou, Asnières, Bougival, Nanterre, Enghien, Noisy-le-Sec, Nogent, Gournay, Drancy, Gonesse.

At the upper end of the Rue de Petit Gentilly, he turned to the left and walked rapidly to the Rue du Petit Banquier.

Day and night, while their heavy artillery kept the forts harassed and busy, the Republican forces ran repeated attacks of cavalry, infantry and lighter artillery right up to the city limits, from Gentilly to St-Cloud.