Notables

When a measure so capable of doing good as the calling the Notables is treated with so much ridicule, we may conclude the nation desperate, and in charity pray that heaven may send them good kings.

Letters 1760

At any rate it proved an easy step from calling the Notables to summoning the ancient Estates General, and that, in its turn, speedily became a modern representative body.

An Introduction to the History of Western Europe James Harvey Robinson 1899

Partly to clear this, partly to find some support for his own timidity, Necker called the Notables together again.

The French Revolution A Short History 1893

The Notables were a selection of important personages, chiefly of the upper order, without legal powers or initiative.

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

The convocation of the Notables was the means upon which M. de Calonne relied; the object was the sanctioning of a financial system new in practice but old in theory.

A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 1830

There is more of an onus, I think, on the list committees such as Notables and BBYA to provide balance on their list, not just in terms of audience, but also genre, ethnicity, etc.

Here they are, Roger Sutton 2006

And it was she who connected him to Carnegie Hall's "Notables" series.

The Moby Dames 2005

And it was she who connected him to Carnegie Hall's "Notables" series.

The Moby Dames 2005

This gathering was the mother of the similar elective assemblies of other provinces and of the French nation as a whole, which, because they were elective, were more formidable than the assemblies of "Notables" selected by the King in France and later by the Governor of Canada.

This Democratic Empire 1940

That's this profile series' conceit: Notables impart life lessons as they tell us how they became notable.

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