11. Today there are ten or eleven active branches in Paris and in the suburbs ( banlieue ). 12. Banlieue towns bear little obvious resemblance to the grim inner-city housing projects of the United States.13. They said they were too few and too lightly armed to patrol " la banlieue ." 14. By the late 19th century, the town gained popularity among the intelligentsia as a fashionable banlieue of Moscow. 15. I grew up in northern New Jersey _ the banlieue of New York _ and I now live in Brooklyn. 16. Banlieue hostility was cited as a main reason for the growing number of police suicides : 83 in 18 months.17. He also held discussions on daily life with Muslim youths in the Paris Banlieue prior to the unrest in 2005. 18. Paris has a densely populated, mostly prosperous core, and a surrounding banlieue with a large degree of poverty. 19. The effort has failed in the banlieue , doomed by realities that comfortable public housing and wishful thinking could not overcome. 20. The article which followed compared Zidane to a young thug from the " banlieue ", the rough suburbs.