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Brie

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Brie

District of northern France, lying between the Rivers Seine and Marne; area 6,500 sq km/2,510 sq mi. The district is divided into two parts: West Brie, now absorbed into Ile-de-France region, and East Brie, formerly the county of Meaux. The district gives its name to a type of cheese.

Brie was formed from part of the former province of Champagne.
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One must eat every day, and the finest Alexandrine verses are not worth a bit of Brie cheese.
Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context
The meal was to finish with an enormous fromage de Brie, which stood near the window and added fragrant odours to all the others which filled the studio.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
It might have been a little corner of Brie, so hidden away in a great fold of the land, that at first sight its existence would not be suspected between the little town and the mountains that closed the country round.
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