Cordeliers
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Both lived in the Cordeliers neighborhood, where the Revolution was said to have begun.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 21, 2025
Dahrouch was only 15 when he started working at La Table des Cordeliers, Palladin’s restaurant in his hometown of Condom, where Palladin became the youngest chef in France to earn two Michelin stars.
From Washington Post • Aug. 17, 2019
A happy peasantry, as gay in their slightly frayed folk costumes as a Shubert chorus, swarmed about Nancy's little Church of the Cordeliers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Danton, on his part, thunders in the club of the Cordeliers; and the next day this patriotic district posts its manifesto demanding a march on Versailles.
From The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution by Sue, Eug?ne
The lord of St. Memin presented a request to the king against the father Cordeliers.
From A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" by Fran?ois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)
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