Citoyen definitions and example sentences on Wordnik

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Regardless of his indignant protests, they would have haled him to the town-hall, had not old Brotteaux, Gamelin, and the three young women borne testimony that the citoyen was named Philippe Desmahis, a copper-plate engraver and a good Jacobin.

—Dieux ont soif. English

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Indeed, it would be difficult to find a more [Pg 7] perfect example of what it was then the fashion to call a citoyen du monde . — The Project Gutenberg eBook of Albert Gallatin, by John Austin Stevens.
Des droits et devoirs du citoyen (On the Rights and Duties of Citizens): — German Joys
Regardless of his indignant protests, they would have haled him to the town-hall, had not old Brotteaux, Gamelin, and the three young women borne testimony that the citoyen was named Philippe Desmahis, a copper-plate engraver and a good Jacobin. — Dieux ont soif. English
The title of "citoyen" was again replaced by that of "monsieur." — A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.
Charlotte Corday gave Marat "Bonsoir, citoyen," ere she drove her knife. — Once Aboard the Lugger