girondist

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1. girondist - Noun

2. girondist - Adjective

Meaning

A member of the moderate republican party formed in the French legislative assembly in 1791. The Girondists were so called because their leaders were deputies from the department of La Gironde.

Of or pertaining to the Girondists.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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This encouraged the Jacobins to seize power through a parliamentary coup, backed up by force effected by mobilising public support against the Girondist faction, and by utilising the mob power of the Parisian sans-culottes. Source: Internet

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