Duplessis-Mornay

[ French dy-ple-see-mawr-ney ]

noun

1. Phi·lippe [fee-, leep]. Mornay, Philippe de.

Duplessis-Mornay

/ dyplɛsimɔrnɛ /

noun

1. a variant of (Philippe de) Mornay

Example Sentences

"Duplessis-Mornay and Théodore de Bèze are our leaders," said Chaudieu.

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I have much confidence in Duplessis-Mornay.

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Under Henri IV. the city was governed by Duplessis-Mornay, the "pape des Huguenots," becoming practically the metropolis of Protestantism.

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Saumur, however, and the Saumurois, for which King Henry IV. had in 1589 created an independent military governor-generalship in favour of Duplessis-Mornay, continued till the Revolution to form a separate gouvernement, which included, besides Anjou, portions of Poitou and Mirebalais.

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These were on the Protestant side, Philippe de Mornay, better known as Duplessis-Mornay, who distinguished himself equally as a soldier, a diplomatist, and a man of letters, and the still more famous Cardinal Du Perron, a converted Calvinist, who was supposed to be the most expert controversialist of a time which was nothing if not controversial.

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