मध्यम रिपब्लिकन पार्टी का एक सदस्य जो फ्रांसीसी क्रांति के दौरान सत्ता में था; Girondists अपने अधिक कट्टरपंथी प्रतिद्वंद्वियों jacobins द्वारा उखाड़ फेंक दिया गया था

girondin's Usage Examples:

Twenty-one Girondin deputies were next brought to the bar and, with the exception of Valaze who stabbed himself, were beheaded on the last day of October, Madame Roland and other Girondins of note suffered later.

The Royalist and Girondin insurrections and the critical aspect of the war favoured the establishment of what is known as the reign of terror.

Enmity between Girondin and Jacobin grew fiercer as the perils of the Republic increased.

The first and most memorable of these contests was the quarrel between Jacobin and Girondin.

Volunteers and federes were constantly arriving in Paris, and, although most went on to join the army, the Jacobins enlisted those who were suitable for their purpose, especially some 500 whom Barbaroux, a Girondin, had summoned from Marseilles.

The king, seeing no other course open, formed a new ministry which was chiefly Girondin.

During the Terror, as he had belonged to the Girondin party, he was obliged to seek safety in the mountains.

He recommended the readmission of the survivors of the Girondin party to the Convention, and drew up a law limiting the right of insurrection; he had also a considerable share in the foreign policy of the victorious republic. With Cambaceres he had been commissioned in April 1794 to report on the civil and criminal legislation of France, with the result that after eighteen months' work he produced his Rapport et projet de code des delits et des peines (Io Vendemiaire, an.

The Girondin ministry then in power had brought Louis XVI.

As an orator his eloquence has been likened to that of both Bossuet and Vergniaud, but it had neither the polish of the old 17th century bishop nor the flashes of genius of the young Girondin.

girondin's Meaning':

a member of the moderate republican party that was in power during the French Revolution; the Girondists were overthrown by their more radical rivals the Jacobins

Synonyms:

subverter, subversive, revolutionary, Girondist, revolutionist,

Antonyms:

loyal, old,