il

1. he (third-person singular masculine subject pronoun for human subject)
2. it (third-person singular subject pronoun for grammatically masculine objects)
3. Impersonal subject; it

était

third-person singular imperfect indicative of être

situé

past participle of situer

au

Contraction of à le (“to the, for the, at the”).

quartier

1. quarter, district (part of town), neighbourhood
2. impoverished neighbourhood, often suburban
3. piece, chunk; segment (of fruit), quarter (of beef)
4. quarter
5. quarter, mercy

à

• Character

  A with grave accent, a letter used in French mostly to distinguish some homographs and in transliteration.

• Prep

Nice

Nice (a coastal city, the capital of the Alpes-Maritimes department, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeast France)