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A name given by the aristocratic section during the French Revolution to the popular party, the favourite leader of which was Henriot. (1793.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.