Saint-Just
Americannoun
noun
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Guillaume Gallienne makes a suitably scary Saint-Just, and Gaël Kamilindi is a highlight in the role of Desmoulins, here a youthful dreamer whose life is cut short alongside Danton’s.
From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2023
Mr. Saint-Just, in his written answer, said that Aviazapchast’s “holding of the loan has been entirely approved by the court of appeal in Moscow.”
From New York Times • Apr. 22, 2022
Also to admire is how Alec Newman's Saint-Just emerges as the real agent of the Terror.
From The Guardian • Jul. 23, 2010
Revolutionary Louis de Saint-Just made the bizarre proposal that decorations awarded to those wounded in the revolutionary struggle be affixed to the exact area of the wound.
From Time Magazine Archive
Saint-Just was included in the sentence, and his strict friend Lebas voluntarily accepted the same doom.
From The French Revolution by Belloc, Hilaire
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