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Feuillant

British

/ 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

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Etymology

Origin of Feuillant

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

Example Sentences

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A party of these latter, with Captains, with sundry Feuillant Notabilities, Moreau de Saint-Mery of the three thousand orders, and others, have been dining, much more respectably, in a Tavern hard by.

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

Mayor Petion and Municipality may lean this way; Department-Directory with Procureur-Syndic Roederer having a Feuillant tendency, may lean that.

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

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

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

Forty-seven of the Forty-eight Sections are ready; nay Filles-Saint-Thomas itself turns up the Jacobin side of it, turns down the Feuillant side of it, and is ready too.

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

The King chose his ministry from the Feuillant Club, notoriously counter-revolutionary.

From The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution by Sue, Eug?ne

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