frondeur

Example Sentences

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And the burden of his song ran thus: A frondeur wind Got up to-day, 'Gainst Mazarin It blows, they say.

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

This brilliant young officer, by nature somewhat a frondeur, was finally guilty of expressions so disrespectful as to lead to his removal shortly before that of Paoli.

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

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

His Eminence accused Eug�ne of being a frondeur; M. de Canaples, whose politics had grown sadly rusted in the country, asked me the meaning of the word.

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

Some one had once called him a frondeur; he was greatly delighted with that name.

From On the Eve by Garnett, Constance