Usage examples (35)

• Fifty-three kilometres from Rethel is Rocroi, a name which means little to most strangers in France.
• As one passes Rocroi, Belgium and France blend themselves into an indistinguishable unit so far as characteristics go.
• The Spanish army of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, down to the date of the Battle of Rocroi, stood very high.
• The French frontier was gained, through Namur, at Rocroi, and Paris reached, via Meaux, thirty-nine days after the capital had previously been quitted.