Girondist

NOUN
  1. 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
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How To Use Girondist In A Sentence

  • I denounce the liberticide Brissot, the Girondist faction, the villainous committee of twenty-one in the National Assembly. The French Revolution - Volume 3
  • The most moderate party, consisting of those who would sustain the throne, but limit its powers by a free constitution, retaining many of the institutions and customs which antiquity had rendered venerable, was called the _Girondist party_. Madame Roland, Makers of History
  • With the Girondists, the last bulwark against the inbreaking tyranny fell. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria
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