Cordelier

A Cordelier is the cause of three murders, that of husband, wife and child.

The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre 1855

Dan, the Cordelier, that is alway up and down hereabout, he said unto him that he would not for no money that he should learn to read the

For the Master's Sake A Story of the Days of Queen Mary Emily Sarah Holt 1864

Observing that every one talked and joked about him, she inquired the reason, and learned that this Cordelier was an old man, confessor to a very respectable and devout lady, who had been some years a widow, and had but one daughter, whom she loved so much that she spared no pains to amass wealth for her and procure her a good match.

The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre 1855

Over the course of the revolution, a number of prominent revolutionaries were members of the Cordelier

Annotations 2007

The Cordelier Club was founded in April 1790 under the name Société des Amis des Droits de l'Homme et du

Annotations 2007

Publisher of the influential Le Vieux Cordelier, which called for a moderation of the terror, he sat in the National Convention as a Montagnard and participated in the purging of the Girondins.

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Cordelier Sextus-Quintus were to exclude from the throne our princes of the blood, under the pretence actually urged by these excellent priests, that Henry IV. and the princes of Condé were a

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Sixtus V., a Cordelier become pope, declared, by his letter of the 25th of June, 1587, to his nuncio in Spain, that he must unmarry all those who were not possessed of testicles.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

The reverend Father Viret, a Cordelier of fullsleeved dignity, a confessor of ladies, and a preacher to the king, has replied to our

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

But how could a man, who had been a Cordelier, be ignorant that the testicles of men are often hidden in the abdomen, and that they are equally if not more effective in that situation?

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007