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  • He returned in eight months to be received with acclamation by the Jacobins, who were, however, themselves irritated at the coolness by which he voted for the death of his cousin, Louis XVI. in 1792; he was present at the execution, which he beheld unmoved, driving from the scene in a carriage drawn by six horses to spend the night in revelry at Raincy, but the title Egalite, which the

    George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life Helen [Editor] Clergue

  • He returned in eight months to be received with acclamation by the Jacobins, who were, however, themselves irritated at the coolness by which he voted for the death of his cousin, Louis XVI. in 1792; he was present at the execution, which he beheld unmoved, driving from the scene in a carriage drawn by six horses to spend the night in revelry at Raincy, but the title Egalite, which the Commune of Paris had authorised him to assume for himself and his descendants, did not save him from the same fate.

    George Selwyn His Letters and His Life Ed 1899

  • That will come, because the nation that gave to the world those three immortal words, Liberte, Fraternal, Egalite, is not going down in one disaster or at the behest of the hucksters of Vichy.

    What I Have Seen Over There and Over Here 1941

  • Egalite which is supposed to be even simpler than rails.

    Harper Reed: Tech, Mobile, Yo-yoing and Death Metal 2009

  • 1 Many of the regicides could not themselves forstall the "National Haircut" during the terror, including Robespeirre, and one "Phillipe d'Egalite'"

    Archive 2008-01-27 de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • 1 Many of the regicides could not themselves forstall the "National Haircut" during the terror, including Robespeirre, and one "Phillipe d'Egalite'"

    The Family and the King de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • But the country whose motto is "Liberte, Egalite and Fraternite" and whose name rhymes with romance hasn't given the love and commitment of same-sex couples an equal legal standing to that of heterosexuals.

    French Gay Marriage Ban Is Constitutional: Watchdog AP 2011

  • Where have they been when 'Egalite, Fraternite, etc' and umpteen Socialist 'class'cleansing was taking place?

    Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

  • The final freed prisoner joined the Revolution, became Citizen Egalite, and was later killed by guillotine in the Place de la Concorde for joining the wrong faction.

    July 15th, 2008 m_francis 2008

  • Maybe now that We can see the end of the tunnel for oil, and its stangulation of Bratain and the World, Britain will wake up and as the Fench say Libertie, Egalite, Fraternite -- Por Israel aussi - Liberty, Equality, Fraternitry for Israel too. phil

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

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