NOUN
- a member of the moderate republican party that was in power during the French Revolution; the Girondists were overthrown by their more radical rivals the Jacobins
How To Use Girondin In A Sentence
- Charlotte approached him and told him she had news from Normandy of the factionary Girondins who had escaped to Caen. Archive 2007-12-16
- Girondin, the librarian Chemin Dupontés, which gave rise to this cult; Valentine Hauy, instructor of the blind and former Terrorist, and the physiocrat, Dupont de Nemours, collaborated with him. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
- They came to power in 1791, and the popular mob uprising of 31 May-2 June 1793 led to their ouster from the Convention, the ascension of the Jacobins, and the trial and subsequent execution of prominent Girondins, including Brissot, in late October 1793. Annotations
