Septembrist

[ sep-tem-brist ]

noun

1. a person who instigated or took part in the September Massacre.

Septembrist

/ sɛpˈtɛmbrɪst /

noun

1. French history a person who took part in the September Massacre

Word History and Origins

Origin of Septembrist¹

1830–40; September + -ist, modeled on Portuguese setembrista (with reference to the revolution of September 1836 in Portugal); replacing earlier septembrizer < French septembriseur

Example Sentences

There, in a public bath, the Septembrist approached another Arab, Ahmed Bouchiki, 30, who looked like the Black September chief.

From Time Magazine Archive

As for le petit Caporal himself, everyone now knows, that while he viewed the carnage of the battlefield with the indifference of a conqueror, he shrank in horror from the murderers of the Swiss; from Danton and his satellites, the Septembrist massacrists; from the mock trials and cold-blooded atrocities of the Terrorists.

From Project Gutenberg

In 1836 the Septembrists stimulated a popular rising in consequence of which the constitution of 1822 was declared again in effect until a new one should have been devised, and, April 4, 1838, there was brought forward under Septembrist auspices an instrument in which it was provided that an elected senate should take the place of the aristocratic House of Peers for which the Charter provided, and that elections to the House of Deputies should thenceforth be direct.

From Project Gutenberg

How, asked they, could any one employ a man whose father had been a Septembrist, a Bonapartist, and a drunkard to boot?

From Project Gutenberg

At first, he hoped that this Buonapartist, this Jacobin, this terrorist, this Septembrist, would return.

From Project Gutenberg