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- We had our problems with Saddam, but we warned the Americans they would rue the day they toppled him.†
p. 111.9 *rue the day = feel sadness and regret (about the day something happened)
- RUE DES ROSTERS†
p. 1.5
- The Weinberg Center stood on the rue des Rosiers, the most prominent street in the city's most visible Jewish neighborhood.†
p. 5.2
- Hannah's apartment was around the corner on the rue Payee.†
p. 5.3
- Marc Weinberg survived the war in hiding, and in 1952 he managed to reclaim the apartment on the rue Payee from the French family who had settled into it after Jeudi Noir.†
p. 8.6
- She did so now and headed past a row of chic clothing boutiques to the rue des Rosiers.†
p. 10.1
- She realized then that she and the man who might have been Professor Strauss were lying together amid the rubble in the rue des Rosiers.†
p. 13.4
- RUE DE GRENELLE, PARIS†
p. 14.1
- At five hundred kilograms, however, the bomb toppled buildings and shattered windows the entire length of the rue des Rosiers.†
p. 14.9
- The enormous force of the blast dug a crater in the rue des Rosiers twenty feet in depth.†
p. 15.3
- The gunfire outside the Weinberg Center ceased at 9:59:30, and the two masked attackers moved calmly west along the rue des Rosiers to the rue Vieille-du-Temple, where they entered a popular boulangerie.†
p. 16.2
- The gunfire outside the Weinberg Center ceased at 9:59:30, and the two masked attackers moved calmly west along the rue des Rosiers to the rue Vieille-du-Temple, where they entered a popular boulangerie.†
p. 16.2
- Instead, they returned to the rue des Rosiers, where a single surviving security camera recorded them moving methodically through the debris, executing the wounded and the dying.†
p. 16.4
- But inside a graceful old building located on the rue de Grenelle, eighty-four men and women were engaged in a search of a far different kind.†
p. 17.5
- Beneath his bulletproof windows—they had been forced upon him by his chief—lay the intersection of the rue de Grenelle and the tranquil little rue Amelie.†
p. 20.1
- Beneath his bulletproof windows—they had been forced upon him by his chief—lay the intersection of the rue de Grenelle and the tranquil little rue Amelie.†
p. 20.1
- Most came and went through the gate on the rue de Grenelle, either on foot or by government car.†
p. 20.5
- It was approaching eight that evening when the deputy finally returned to the rue de Grenelle.†
p. 21.4
- Traffic moved along the rue de Grenelle, and to the east, rising above the Seine embankments, glowed the lights of the Eiffel Tower.†
p. 24.9
- For on that very same evening, as Rousseau was walking toward his sad little bachelor's apartment on the rue Saint-Jacques, a car was speeding along Beirut's seafront Corniche.†
p. 26.3
- The building at the western end of the street was, like Paul Rousseau's outpost on the rue de Grenelle, a lie in plain sight.†
p. 36.5
- It was Gallerie Mansour on the rue Madame Curie.†
p. 38.6
- He had anticipated his quarry would proceed directly to Madame Weinberg's apartment on the rue Payee, where Paul Rousseau was at that moment waiting.†
p. 70.7
- Instead, the legend made a stop on the rue des Rosiers.†
p. 70.8
- RUE PAYEE, PARIS†
p. 75.1
- Now, over coffee in the salon of the Weinberg family apartment on the rue Payee, Gabriel and Rousseau set out to repair, at least temporarily, the legacy of mistrust.†
p. 76.5
- I can give you a room in our headquarters on the rue de Grenelle.†
p. 78.1
- It was as familiar to Gabriel as the entrance of Hannah Weinberg's building on the rue Payee, though it had been many years since his last visit.†
p. 80.5
- Paul Rousseau received a copy of the dossier during a meeting at AIVD headquarters in The Hague, and upon his return to Paris he presented it to Gabriel in a quiet brasserie on the rue de Miromesnil, in the Eighth Arrondissement.†
p. 86.7
- This picture was taken as she was walking along the arcades of the rue de Rivoli.†
p. 93.5
- Paul Rousseau endured this indignity in a small café on the rue Cler, a fashionable pedestrian shopping street not far from the Eiffel Tower.†
p. 95.3
- He departed Paris the morning after he was photographed on the rue de Rivoli and the Champs-Elysées, also aboard a Eurostar train, this one bound for London.†
p. 97.1
- Gabriel handed the Jordanian two more photos: Safia Bourihane and Jalal Nasser on the rue de Rivoli, Safia Bourihane and Jalal Nasser on the Champs-Elysees.†
p. 107.3
- And so it was that, two months to the day after the Clinique Jacques Chirac opened its doors, Gabriel found himself in Paul Rousseau's office on the rue de Grenelle.†
p. 186.3
- RUE DU LOMBARD, BRUSSELS†
p. 187.1
- There was even a shot of Hannah Weinberg leaving her apartment on the rue Payee.†
p. 188.1
- Nabil Awad lived on the rue Ransfort, a narrow street lined with terraces of flaking nineteenth-century brick houses that had been carved into crowded tenements.†
p. 188.5
- Nor, for that matter, was the sixty-euro-a-night hotel on the rue du Lombard where he met Gabriel.†
p. 188.7
- At half past six that evening, two men of late middle age, one an elegantly dressed Arab with a bird-of-prey face, the other vaguely Jewish in appearance, departed the hotel on the rue du Lombard and climbed into a car that seemed to materialize from thin air.†
p. 191.8
- And while pretending to window-shop in the rue Vavin she had seen him on the opposite side of the street, pretending to do the same.†
p. 215.1
- Natalie returned quickly to the rue Vavin and entered a boutique she had visited a few minutes earlier.†
p. 215.4
- "And the clothing store on the rue Vavin?" he asked over the tolling of the bells.†
p. 231.9
- After reading it he drove across the Seine and made his way to the rue de Grenelle in the Seventh Arrondissement, where he nosed the car through the security gate of a handsome creamcolored building.†
p. 237.3
- If she was frightened, she gave no sign of it, even on the last night, when Gabriel spirited her into Paul Rousseau's lair on the rue de Grenelle for a final briefing.†
p. 241.8
- "An admirable performance," Paul Rousseau told Gabriel that evening at Alpha Group's headquarters on the rue de Grenelle.†
p. 336.3
- There, in the Office's secure communications crypt, he checked in with his teams in Paris and London before ringing Paul Rousseau at his office on the rue de Grenelle.†
p. 354.8
- Maurice Durand, the world's most successful art thief, popped in from Paris and somehow managed to avoid bumping into Paul Rousseau, who surely would have remembered him from the brasserie on the rue de Miromesnil.†
p. 510.9
- At King Saul Boulevard—and at Langley, Vauxhall Cross, and an elegant old building on the rue de Grenelle—this was seen as an encouraging sign.†
p. 516.6
Definitions:
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(1)
(rue) to feel sadness and regret
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Rue is also French for street, but often seen in English when referencing a specific street, much as people speaking French might refer to Main Street. Occasionally, you may also see rue referencing a type of plant.