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Faubourg Saint-Germain: synonyms: Saint-Germain ???

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A very ritzy district of Paris which has been a high-rent district since the eighteenth century

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What a sound intuition there is in that 'Noli me tangere**' motto of the Faubourg Saint-Germain."

Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1] (1913)

^{** Latin for "touch me not"}

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Besides, students are thought a great deal of in Paris. Provided they have a few accomplishments, they are received in the best society; there are even ladies of the Faubourg Saint-Germain who fall in love with them, which subsequently furnishes them opportunities for making very good matches."

Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary

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It was Chastellux who suggested that Jefferson send Patsy to the Abbaye Royale de Panthemont in the Faubourg Saint-Germain.

Thomas J. Craughwell. Thomas Jefferson's Crème Brûlée, p.39 (2012)