Usage examples for la:

• Are you not Monsieur de la Mole? "Marguerite de Valois" – Alexandre Dumas

• At a small writing- table sat the beautiful La Meronville. "The Disowned, Complete" – Edward Bulwer-Lytton

• They parted in the Place de la Nation, swearing an oath of eternal fidelity. "The Gods are Athirst" – Anatole France

• She called him Monsieur de la Tourelle, and he began to speak to me in French; but though I understood him perfectly, I dared not trust myself to reply to him in that language. "The Grey Woman and other Tales" – Mrs. (Elizabeth) Gaskell