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Polignac

/ pɔliɲak /

noun

  1. Polignac, Prince de17801847MFrenchPOLITICS: statesman 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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In vain he warned the King that this was not a revolt but a revolution; the counsels of Polignac were all powerful.

As soon as Bonaparte discovered the perfidy, he ordered Polignac to be put under arrest.

The life of Polignac was saved: his honour it was beyond the power even of the generosity of an emperor to redeem.

Madame de Polignac hastily glanced over the letter, recognised the writing, and fainted.

He behaved with almost equal incivility to the Princesse de Polignac, the obscurity of whose English origin was an offence to him.

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