And, being a French-speaking city, it has good restaurants, some of which are featuring a Simenon menu this summer.
Population: Montreal is the second-largest French-speaking city in the world with 3.7 million inhabitants.
The third largest French-speaking city in the world, after Paris and Kinshasa, is remarkably bilingual as well.
Montreal is the world's second largest French-speaking city after Paris.
But the message from the night before was clear: there are baseball fans in this French-speaking city, and they want the Expos to stay.
And how many people know that the second-largest French-speaking city in the world is Kinshasa, the capital of Congo?
On the other hand the French-speaking cities of Flanders were sometimes recognised as a separate province.
Montreal is the second largest primarily French-speaking city in the world, after Paris.
It is the largest French-speaking city in North America, and the cultural capital of the Quebec province.
Belgium at the age of five living in the French-speaking city of Namur.