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Polignac
/ pɔliɲak /
noun
- Polignac, Prince de17801847MFrenchPOLITICS: statesman Prince de, title of Auguste Jules Armand Marie de Polignac. 1780–1847, French statesman; prime minister (1829–30) to Charles X: his extreme royalist and ultramontane policies provoked the 1830 revolution and cost Charles X the throne
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In vain he warned the King that this was not a revolt but a revolution; the counsels of Polignac were all powerful.
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As soon as Bonaparte discovered the perfidy, he ordered Polignac to be put under arrest.
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The life of Polignac was saved: his honour it was beyond the power even of the generosity of an emperor to redeem.
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Madame de Polignac hastily glanced over the letter, recognised the writing, and fainted.
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He behaved with almost equal incivility to the Princesse de Polignac, the obscurity of whose English origin was an offence to him.
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