As with the banlieue movies, the warning signs were clear in some lyrics.

He is known for his urban poetry in French banlieue (suburbs).

What had happened down in the industrial estate would be a massive deal, even for such a rough banlieue.

At the age of 7 she arrived with her family in a Lyon's banlieue slum.

While they consider themselves good examples for youths in the banlieue, the local chief of police feels otherwise.

This fascination with the banlieue image has also found its way into the big screen with the movie B-13.

This very night in a village in the banlieue he terrified the congregation of an entire church.

It is essentially a banlieue (or suburb) of Barcelona.

And, he notes, "Each banlieue riot involving young immigrants sends more votes to the far right."

Elsewhere, where towns had not extended their power over more than a limited banlieue, this practice could be financially damaging.

The word banlieue, which is French for "suburb," does not necessarily refer to an environment of social disenfranchisement.

By the late 19th century, the town gained popularity among the intelligentsia as a fashionable banlieue of Moscow.

Brooklyn was Nowheresville - a sort of Manhattan banlieue.

And they were smart enough to focus attention on the banlieue, the outskirts of Paris, which is where most of the city's challenges lie.

The story focus on a street in the Parisian banlieue where live Italian and French workers.

The term banlieue itself comes from the two French words ban and lieue ("league", roughly four kilometers).

The article which followed compared Zidane to a hooligan from the banlieue, the rough suburbs.

The term is banlieue, not banlieu.

On May 25, 2003, Banlieue Rouge made its entire catalogue available for free downloading at banlieuerouge.propagande.org.

The obvious parallels seen in the glorification of the banlieue and that of one's "hood" is not one to overlook.

"Banlieue Rouge" is also a well-known song by French singer Renaud.

In 2010 they performed a new song called "Banlieue", which ended up on their next album, The National Health.

That is not the genre usually associated with the banlieue setting, typically the backdrop for grim exercises in realist melodrama.

And all this not in any scrubby old banlieue, but in an apartment next door to the Eiffel Tower.

"Banlieue nord"