Polignac

/ (French pɔliɲak) /

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noun

Prince de, title of Auguste Jules Armand Marie de Polignac. 1780–1847, French statesman; prime minister (1829–30) to Charles X: his extreme royalist and ultramontane policies provoked the 1830 revolution and cost Charles X the throne

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How to use Polignac in a sentence

In vain he warned the King that this was not a revolt but a revolution; the counsels of Polignac were all powerful.
Napoleon's Marshals|R. P. Dunn-Pattison
As soon as Bonaparte discovered the perfidy, he ordered Polignac to be put under arrest.
The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes|Various
The life of Polignac was saved: his honour it was beyond the power even of the generosity of an emperor to redeem.
The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes|Various
Madame de Polignac hastily glanced over the letter, recognised the writing, and fainted.
The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes|Various

He behaved with almost equal incivility to the Princesse de Polignac, the obscurity of whose English origin was an offence to him.
Memoirs of the Duchesse de Dino v.1/3, 1831-1835|Dorothy Duchesse de Dino