Guizot

[ gee-zoh ]

noun

1. Fran·çois Pierre Guil·laume [f, r, ah, n, -, swa, pye, r, gee-, yohm], 1787–1874, French historian and statesman.

Guizot

/ ɡizo /

noun

1. GuizotFrançois Pierre Guillaume17871874MFrenchPOLITICS: statesmanHISTORY: historian François Pierre Guillaume (frɑ̃swa pjɛr ɡijom). 1787–1874, French statesman and historian. As chief minister (1840–48), his reactionary policies contributed to the outbreak of the revolution of 1848

Example Sentences

After all, it was their ultimate forbear, the 19th-century French liberal François Guizot, who acknowledged that conspiracies are what weak governments conjure out of the resentment they generate in order to cover up their own mistakes.

From The Guardian

These included the anarchist Mikhail Bakunin, the former French prime minister François Guizot and the journalist Alphonse Karr, now mainly remembered for his immortal epigram, “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose,” the more things change, the more they stay the same.

From Washington Post

The future prime minister Francois Guizot used to say that "Madame Mohl and my little Scotch terrier have the same coiffeur".

From BBC

John Stuart Mill and James Madison have to share a berth with François Guizot, the French statesman and historian who, long before Lord Acton, articulated the liberal conviction that power corrupts, and Franz Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch, the German who founded the first credit unions.

From Economist

At the time, the young leftist counterculture claimed that its ideological enemies could be found on the far side of Guizot’s magic number, 30.

From BusinessWeek