bouleversement
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He was indeed born a Revolutionist; and if he had not found the elements of a bouleversement, was competent to have created them.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. by Various
He replied he did not think there would now be a bouleversement, but a Ministry of Lafayette, Lamarque, and all that party who were impatient to plunge France into war.
From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. II by Henry Reeve
Melbourne said to me at Court that ‘it was a great bouleversement, a great experiment, and we must see how it worked.’
From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. III by Charles Greville
Mon Dieu, ze mal der mer!" he had exclaimed—"Ze bouleversement of ze vagues!
From God's Good Man by Marie Corelli
What he taught was a total bouleversement of the methods of his age.
From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Kenneth Morris
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