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
The Jacobin Club and the Club of the Cordeliers will destroy the monarchy.
From Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty by Arthur Léon, baron Imbert de Saint-Amand
Cordeliers, club of the, 7; chiefs of, 7; decide to attack the Tuileries, 274.
From Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty by Arthur Léon, baron Imbert de Saint-Amand
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