Cordelier definition

kôrdəlir; Fr kpdəlyā
In France, a member of the Franciscan Observants.
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A member of a radical French Revolutionary political club.
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(historical) A member of a French populist club during the French Revolution, which met in an old Cordelier convent in Paris.
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Noun

Singular:
cordelier
Plural:
cordeliers

Origin of cordelier

  • French, related to corde (“rope”), from the girdle of knotted cord worn by the Franciscans.

    From Wiktionary

Cordelier Sentence Examples

  • The Cordeliers were combated by those revolutionists who wished to end the Terror, especially by Danton, and by Camille Desmoulins in his journal Le Vieux Cordelier.

  • In December 1793 was issued the first number of the Vieux Cordelier, which was at first directed against the Hebertists and approved of by Robespierre, but which soon formulated Danton's idea of a committee of clemency.

  • On the 7th of January 1 794 Robespierre, who on a former occasion had defended Camille when in danger at the hands of the National Convention, in addressing the Jacobin club counselled not the expulsion of Desmoulins, but the burning of certain numbers of the Vieux Cordelier.

  • He had exhibited in the numbers of the Vieux Cordelier almost a disregard of the death which he must have known hovered over him.

  • Then he was elected to the Legislative Assembly, sitting at the extreme left, and forming with C. Bazire and Merlin de Thionville the "Cordelier trio."

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