frondeur

Example Sentences

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Then suddenly he added, "Apropos, have you heard that Eug�ne has become one of the leaders of these frondeur madmen?"

From The Suitors of Yvonne: being a portion of the memoirs of the Sieur Gaston de Luynes by Sabatini, Rafael

Tallemant says that the Marquis "avait terriblement d'esprit, mais un peu frondeur."

From Aspects and Impressions by Gosse, Edmund

Ch�teaubriand's father is likewise one of the discontented, "a political frondeur, and very inimical to the court."

From The Ancient Regime by Durand, John

The loss was indeed serious; for the young orator was far more than a frondeur.

From William Pitt and the Great War by Rose, John Holland

By this repressive policy the frondeur spirit of the Noblesse was revived, and it has continued to exist down to the present time.

From Russia by Wallace, Donald Mackenzie, Sir