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  • noun Plural form of Feuillant.

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Examples

  • The Feuillants were the constitutionalists, inclined, while in general consistently championing the settlement of 1791, to strengthen the royal power, -- they were the conservatives of the Assembly.

    A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. Carlton J. H. Hayes 1923

  • V called the Feuillants to Rome, where he gave them the church of S. Pudentiana, and the same year, Henry III, King of France, constructed for them the monastery of St. Bernard, in the Rue Saint-Honoré,

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

  • [2] The Monks of St. Bernard were known as Feuillants, from Feuillans, a village in Languedoc where their principal convent was situated.

    The Life of Marie Antoinette Yonge, Charles Duke, 1812-1891 1876

  • -- And yet, with the exception of an iron-railing pushed in by the crowd and an irruption on to the terrace of the "Feuillants," no act of violence was committed.

    The French Revolution - Volume 2 Hippolyte Taine 1860

  • Feuillans or Notre-Dame des Feuillans (Lat. folium, leaf), and the religious were soon called Feuillants (Lat.

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

  • Ahead of them stood the former convent of the Feuillants, which had become the headquarters of a political club suppressed, in its turn, during the Terror.

    The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010

  • Although he trained at the renowned Carr é des Feuillants in Paris, Mr. Dubou é also spent time at Daniel Boulud 's Caf é Boulud in New York.

    Better, Cheaper French Cuisine 2010

  • This Marquis de La Fayette, a member of the -- no, a founder of the Club of the Feuillants, which was almost the same as saying he was a declared traitor to King Charles.

    He Don't Know Him 2010

  • Ahead of them stood the former convent of the Feuillants, which had become the headquarters of a political club suppressed, in its turn, during the Terror.

    The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010

  • Ahead of them stood the former convent of the Feuillants, which had become the headquarters of a political club suppressed, in its turn, during the Terror.

    The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010

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