fainéant
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How many years has he been a roi fainéant?
From The Lily and the Cross A Tale of Acadia by James De Mille
You call me trifler, fainéant, And bid me give my life an aim!—
From Point Lace and Diamonds by Francis Day
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 John Holland Rose
Doubtless the fainéant condition of nearly all the daimyōs at this time made the accomplishment of this event more easy.
From Japan by David Murray
The lord no doubt was a fool, and filled the most foolish place in the world,—that of a silly fainéant earl.
From The Landleaguers by Anthony Trollope
Any quantity of heraldries of knaves and fainéants you may find in what they call their 'history': but this is probably the first time you ever read the name of Robert of Luzarches.
From Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens by John Ruskin
She extols them both, and makes over to their joint care and tuition the fainéants aforesaid.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 by Various
Others are weaklings, fainéants; but one, the most dread woman in Frankish history, Fredegonda, the queen of Chilperic, towers above all in this masque of slaughter and treachery.
From Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine by Lewis Spence
Bold might the planton be; we were no fainéants.
From The Enormous Room by E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings
After Dagobert's death these mayors practically ruled in the place of the Merovingian monarchs, who became mere "do-nothing kings,"—rois fainéants, as the French call them.
From An Introduction to the History of Western Europe by James Harvey Robinson
