Feuillant
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of Feuillant
from the convent of Notre Dame des Feuillants , where meetings were held
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O my Parisian Friends, is not this, as well as Regraters and Feuillant Plotters, one cause of the astonishing dearth of Sugar!
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
It was the first act of hostility and defiance, and it showed that the king was parting with his Feuillant friends.
From Lectures on the French Revolution by John Neville Figgis
The Feuillant ministry fell with the King, and an executive council composed of radicals took its place.
From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) by William Milligan Sloane
Feuillants all of these men: a Feuillant Directory; founding on high character, and such like; with Duke de la Rochefoucault for President,—a thing which may prove dangerous for him!
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
The Feuillant deputies went out with him to the Tuileries.
From History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution by H. T. Ryde
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