But I excuse it, it is impossible to expect the son of a Girondin to be free from a small spice of the old leaven." A deep crimson suffused the countenance of Villefort.
"'Tis true, madame," answered he, "that my father was a Girondin, but he was not among the number of those who voted for the king's death; he was an equal sufferer with yourself during the Reign of Terror, and had well-nigh lost his head on the same scaffold on which your father perished."
"True," replied the marquise, without wincing in the slightest degree at the tragic remembrance thus called up; "but bear in mind, if you please, that our respective parents underwent persecution and proscription from diametrically opposite principles; in proof of which I may remark, that while my family remained among the stanchest adherents of the exiled princes, your father lost no time in joining the new government; and that while the Citizen Noirtier was a Girondin, the Count Noirtier became a senator."
"Do you know, my dear Villefort," cried the Comte de Salvieux, "that is exactly what I myself said the other day at the Tuileries, when questioned by his majesty's principal chamberlain touching the singularity of an alliance between the son of a Girondin and the daughter of an officer of the Duc de Conde; and I assure you he seemed fully to comprehend that this mode of reconciling political differences was based upon sound and excellent principles.
When the Revolution past into the period of violent bloodshed he determined, with more enthusiasm than judgment, to put himself forward as a leader of the moderate
Girondins. From the wholesale slaughter of this party a few months later he was saved through the stopping of his allowance by his more cautious uncles, which compelled him, after a year's absence, to return to England.
Built between 1894 and 1902 in memory of the
Girondin deputies victims of the Terror, it is the most emblematic depiction of the French Revolution in Bordeaux.
Selon le Daily Mail, l'ancien
Girondin plait beaucoup a Sam Allardyce, le manager de West Ham, qui envisage de se le faire preter des le mois de janvier pour compenser l'absence d'Andy Carroll, blesse, et concurrencer plus serieusement un Carlton Cole decevant.
And what are we to do with statements such as this one, from
Girondin Jerome Petion, from early 1791?
Manon was arrested at the same time as the
Girondin leaders on May 31, 1793, and she spent some five months in prison.
Dans un premier temps pour recadrer ses joueurs suite au revers
girondin qui a compromis l'avenir europeen du champion de France sortant.