L'enfance d'une ville - meaning and definition. What is L'enfance d'une ville
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L'enfance d'une ville         
"L'Enfance d'une ville" (from the series Villes nouvelles, episode 1) is a 1975 TV documentary by French filmmaker Éric Rohmer about the planning of the new city of Cergy-Pontoise, which was under construction at the time.
Ville         
  • Communes of France ending with ''-ville''
FRENCH WORD AND ENGLISH SUFFIXE
-ville
Ville () is the French word nowadays meaning "city" or "town", but its meaning in the Middle Ages was "farm" (from Gallo-Romance VILLA < Latin villa rustica) and then "village". The derivative suffix -ville is commonly used in names of cities, towns and villages, particularly throughout France, Canada and the United States.
-ville         
  • Communes of France ending with ''-ville''
FRENCH WORD AND ENGLISH SUFFIXE
-ville
¦ combining form informal used in fictitious place names with reference to a particular quality: dullsville.
Origin
from Fr. ville 'town'.