Saint-Just

[ san-zhyst ]

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noun

Louis An·toine Lé·on de [lwee ah, n, -, twan, ley-, awn, d, uh], 1767–94, French revolutionist.

Saint-Just

/ sɛ̃ʒyst /

Saint-JustLouis Antoine Léon de17671794MFrenchPOLITICS: RevolutionaryPOLITICS: orator Louis Antoine Léon de (lwi ɑ̃twan leɔ̃ də). 1767–94, French Revolutionary leader and orator. A member of the Committee of Public Safety (1793–94), he was guillotined with Robespierre

In it were included the names of his brother, of Couthon, and of Saint-Just.

Apart from its buttresses, Saint-Just has little decorative style.

He had hardly gone a hundred yards before the clock at Saint-Just struck once; that of Montagnac answered like a bronze echo.

I was condemned, at the instigation of Saint-Just, who caused me to be arrested by eight gens d'armes.

He devoted himself to the war, but he disapproved of the Terror and came to a breach with Saint-Just.

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