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  • noun A member of a reformed branch of the Bernardines, founded in 1577 at Feuillans, near Toulouse, in France.

Etymologies

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French

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Examples

  • Even Governor La Fayette, traitorous effete Feuillant dog that he was, seemed enthusiastic about the battle ahead.

    He Don't Know Him 2010

  • For though I am a Feuillant, a democrat, even a Jacobin in my darkest heart, and even though my love for America is greater than that of any man save perhaps Franklin or Washington, who are dead, or Jefferson among the living -- despite all that, I am a Frenchman first, and what care I for liberty in any corner of God's world, if there is none in France?

    He Don't Know Him 2010

  • "It must indeed be," says Feuillant, "that this is not so certain; for controversy indicates uncertainty (Saint Athanasius, Saint Chrysostom, morals, unbelievers)."

    Pens��es 1623-1662 1944

  • Relaxations crept into the Order of Citeaux as into most religious congregations, and in the sixteenth century the Feuillant monastery was dishonoured by unworthy monks.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

  • _Feuillant_ nominee, Count Louis de Narbonne, his own natural cousin, to the ministry of war.

    The French Revolution A Short History 1893

  • The Feuillant ministry fell with the King, and an executive council composed of radicals took its place.

    The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) William Milligan Sloane 1889

  • The Assembly dismissed the King's body-guard on May twenty-ninth; on June thirteenth, the Girondists were removed from the ministry; within a few days it was known at court that Prussia had taken the field as an ally of Austria, and on the seventeenth a conservative, Feuillant cabinet was formed.

    The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) William Milligan Sloane 1889

  • The tactics of the Feuillant advisers brought a revival of popular feeling in favour of the Court, which seemed inconceivable at the epoch of the arrest.

    Lectures on the French Revolution John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton 1868

  • When all was accurately combined, and the Swiss troops were on the march to the rendezvous, the king revoked his orders, and on July 10 the Feuillant ministry resigned, and the Girondins saw power once more within their grasp.

    Lectures on the French Revolution John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton 1868

  • He could count on the Feuillant majority, on the ministry composed of his partisans, on his popularity with the

    Lectures on the French Revolution John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton 1868

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