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Quai d'Orsay|ke dɔrsɛ|
The name of a quai (see quai) in Paris, used by metonymy for the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which is situated there. Also attrib.
1922W. S. Maugham On Chinese Screen xix. 74 He represented certain important French interests in China and was said to have more power at the Quai d'Orsay than the minister himself. 1927N. Wainwright tr. Dekobra's Madonna of Sleeping Cars xii. 167 The Quai d'Orsay would register a formal protest. 1933G. Arthur Septuagenarian's Scrap Bk. 33 The Foreign Office and the Quai d'Orsay must have put their cards on the table with quite amazing confidence in one another's goodwill. 1940H. G. Wells New World Order §11. 151 The Germans..have to get on with collectivisation..and they cannot give themselves to that if they are artificially divided up and disorganised by some old-fashioned Quai d'Orsay scheme. 1958L. Durrell Mountolive viii. 158 Your Quai d'Orsay people shock me. 1969B. Weil Dossier IX viii. 63 Asher chuckled. ‘I suppose the Quai d'Orsay felt it was going to be caught with its knickers down again!’ 1975C. Mott-Radclyffe Foreign Body in Eye vii. 138 Preliminary negotiations had taken place in Paris for several weeks between Sir Maurice Peterson from the Foreign Office, and St Quentin from the Quai d'Orsay. |