fainéant

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George de Lacorfe, fashionable, fainéant and forty, reader of The Pink 'Un, ardent bachelor, Basker in short, suddenly finds the dukedom of Cheviot thrust upon him.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 12, 1916 by Seaman, Owen, Sir

For George III. was by no means inclined to be a Roi fainéant.

From The Constitutional History of England from 1760 to 1860 by Yonge, Charles Duke

Bibulus, a colleague of Julius Cæsar; a mere cipher, a fainéant.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin

And whereas Sieyès condemned his grand functionary to the repose of a roi fainéant, Bonaparte secured to him practically all the powers assigned by Sieyès to the Consuls for Peace and for War.

From The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 1 of 2) by Rose, John Holland

The best answer can be found in the story of the Colony, for the General Assembly, at all events, has never been a fainéant ruler.

From The Long White Cloud by Reeves, William Pember