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Guizot

American  
[gee-zoh] / giˈzoʊ /

noun

  1. François Pierre Guillaume 1787–1874, French historian and statesman.


Guizot British  
/ ɡizo /

noun

  1. François Pierre Guillaume (frɑ̃swa pjɛr ɡijom). 1787–1874, French statesman and historian. As chief minister (1840–48), his reactionary policies contributed to the outbreak of the revolution of 1848

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Prime Minister Guizot himself subscribed to the Opposition newspaper that ran The Three Musketeers, sending in his subscription with the note: "Please cancel . . . the moment the Dumas serial is concluded."

From Time Magazine Archive

Of the progress of his graver studies little is known, for in the work which he entitled Memoirs of my own Times Guizot omitted all personal details of his earlier life.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various

M. Guizot, what would he not give to be Chien de Race?

From The Great House by Weyman, Stanley John

Guizot held that such a war would be the greatest of all calamities, and certainly never contemplated it.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various

There was the same favourable consensus of critical opinion regarding Philip II., and it received the honour of a notice from the pen of M. Guizot in the Edinburgh Review.

From William Hickling Prescott by Peck, Harry Thurston

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