Foucquet

[ French foo-ke ]

noun

1. Fouquet.

Foucquet

/ fukɛ /

noun

1. a variant spelling of (Nicolas) Fouquet

Example Sentences

Foucquet had died March 23, 1680.

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Foucquet had believed in listening to Lauzun that he was mentally deranged.

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He had been disgraced for having shown himself too independent at the time of the prosecution of Foucquet, and he was also one of those old politicians, liberal after their own fashion, who held firmly to the privileges belonging to their class, and who were not accustomed to see criticisms of the King punished more severely than blasphemies against the Deity.

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"It is a strange thing," wrote she, "this difference of time; who would have said to the Admiral Coligny, 'The wife of your grandson will be maltreated by the Abb� Foucquet'?—he would not have believed it, and there was no mention at all of this name of Foucquet in his time."

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This was not finished without tears and grinding of teeth, not without some injustice also, as in the case of Foucquet, assuredly culpable, but paying for many others, of whom Mazarin was the first.

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