Jourdan

[ zhoor-dahn ]

/ ʒurˈdɑ̃ /

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noun

Jean Bap·tiste

[zhahnba-teest], /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist/, Count, 1762–1833, French marshal.

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Charleroi surrendered to the French under Jourdan, seven days after the trenches had been opened.
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A Jacobin, Jourdan, led them, and had collected under guard dozens of scared bourgeois and some women.
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I got up and went in after the Jourdan mob with the people who were crowding in to see what would happen.
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The terrible example set by Jourdan late in '91 was received in Paris with other than reprobation.
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General Jourdan publicly proclaimed the assistance he had received from aeronautic observations.
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