Associations to the word «Girondist»

Wiktionary

GIRONDIST, noun. A member of a radical political faction in France during the French Revolution.

Dictionary definition

GIRONDIST, noun. 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.

Wise words

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca