Feuillant

/ fœjɑ̃ /

noun

French history a member of a club formed in 1791 by Lafayette advocating a limited constitutional monarchy: forced to disband in 1792 as the revolution became more violent and antimonarchical

from the convent of Notre Dame des Feuillants , where meetings were held

It was the first act of hostility and defiance, and it showed that the king was parting with his Feuillant friends.

He could count on the Feuillant majority, on the ministry composed of his partisans, on his popularity with the National Guard.

But the Assembly was not Feuillant, and the veto began its estrangement from the king.

By fortune and valour, she has extinguished Feuillantism itself, at least the Feuillant Club.

He was thus led to separate himself from the Jacobins and to join the Feuillant party.

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