Nanterre
Proper noun
Meaning
Nanterre
A city in the Hauts-de-Seine department, Île-de-France, France
Synonyms
Examples
But toward the end of the first phase of the Nanterre movement, that is before March, the dean took back little by little all the rights he had granted the students.
Paris West University Nanterre La Défense formerly called "Paris X Nanterre" is a French university in the Academy of Versailles.
Its creation reflected the implementation of a law passed in 1964, and Nanterre had already been selected as the prefecture for the new department early in 1965.
The active ideologists (“enragés” and Situationists) behind the revolutionary events in Strasbourg, Nanterre and Paris, numbered only about one or two dozen persons.
The occupations of 1968 started at the University of Nanterre and spread to the Sorbonne.
Mr Sarkozy is being held at Nanterre, near Paris, in an unprecedented step against a former president.