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Champ de Mars [< F] 
a parade square; specifically, in late use, a place in Montreal which was formerly a parade square.
- 1807 On Monday last, the chosen men of the 2d and 3d Battalion met on the Champ de Mars. . . .
- 1963 On the Champs [sic] de Mars that day the oratory was torrential.
- 1807 On Monday last, the chosen men of the 2d and 3d Battalion met on the Champ de Mars. . . .