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Example sentences for "cahiers"

Lexicographically close words:
cages; caging; cagion; cagione; cahier; cahoots; cailloux; caiman; caint; caique
  1. Simultaneously, there was an improvement in the fortunes of "Les cahiers de la quinzaine.

  2. For fifteen years they wrote and edited the "Cahiers de la quinzaine.

  3. The faithful of the "Cahiers de la quinzaine" won new friends.

  4. The "Cahiers de la quinzaine" were at once the birthplace and the tomb of his writings.

  5. Madame Gatti de Gammond died in 1905, and her publication, the Cahiers feministes, was discontinued.

  6. The cahiers of the country villages contain more complaints of feudal exactions, while those of the towns and of the electoral districts give more space to political and social reforms.

  7. The result of this arrangement was that the parish priests far outnumbered the regular ecclesiastics and dignitaries, and that the clerical cahiers oftenest express the wishes of the lower portion of the secular clergy.

  8. Many cahiers ask for elective municipal or village authorities.

  9. I have not undertaken to give references to all the cahiers on which my conclusions are founded, but only to a few typical examples.

  10. The financial scheme outlined in the cahiers is, in the main, as follows.

  11. Many cahiers and extracts from cahiers are also found printed in other places.

  12. But only two years before the cahiers were drawn up, another nation, which it had recently been the fashion much to admire in France, had appointed its deputies to draw up its constitution.

  13. The cahiers of the clergy, more, perhaps, than any others, insist on the importance of education; and the ecclesiastics generally wish to control it themselves.

  14. Thus the cahiers of the Commons finally carried to the Estates General at Versailles were less directly the expression of the opinions of the order from which they came than were the cahiers of the Clergy and of the Nobility.

  15. Their cahiers differ somewhat from place to place, but are wonderfully alike in general current.

  16. It appears in their very name, "Cahiers of Lamentations, Complaints, and Remonstrances.

  17. Thus the cahiers do not attack the right of property in the abstract; on the contrary, they maintain it.

  18. Here a committee was appointed to consider all the local cahiers and consolidate them; those of the intermediate assemblies being again worked over for the general cahier of the Third Estate of each electoral district.

  19. The cahiers show that everybody was opposed to the use of lettres de cachet as they then existed; but most of the cahiers that had anything to say about them expressed a desire to keep something of the kind.

  20. My own study of the cahiers confirms this opinion.

  21. These Petitions were of considerable value, for, although the States-General was dismissed without having received the answer of the King, the cahiers often furnished the basis for royal ordinances.

  22. The three cahiers having then been presented to the King, the States-General was dismissed.

  23. The nobles and clergy drew up their cahiers (petitions), and elected their deputies separately.

  24. In every bailliage and senechaussee each estate drew up its own cahier and the cahiers of the Third Estate were condensed from separate cahiers drawn up by each parish in the district.

  25. A more general collection of cahiers than any above named is given in vols.

  26. Thus the cahiers of the Third Estate number many thousands, the greater part of which have not yet been printed.

  27. Among the collections printed we may mention Les Elections et les cahiers de Paris en 1789, by C.

  28. Numerous issues of "Cahiers de la Quinzaine" have been devoted to castigating the crimes of civilisation.

  29. We had just founded the "Cahiers de la Quinzaine.

  30. The Clergy have got up; with Cahiers for abolishing pluralities, enforcing residence of bishops, better payment of tithes.

  31. They pass silently, with such Cahiers as they have been able to redact; and none cries, God bless them.

  32. The committee continued its work in France, and succeeded in securing a demand for the admission of colonial deputies in at least fourteen cahiers of primary assemblies.

  33. Coincidental, the National Assembly was about to meet, deputies were being elected, cahiers were being written, and the country was stirred up over the watchword liberty.

  34. The same cahiers sometimes expressed a wish that the power of the king should be limited by a Constitution defining his rights and those of the nation.

  35. At the very moment of the Revolution this condition of the finances became the cause of universal discontent, which is expressed in the cahiers of the States General.

  36. Despite these unfavourable circumstances the cahiers contained no revolutionary ideas.

  37. What would these cahiers have told us had they been written ten years earlier?

  38. First, then, it must be said that the cahiers present at the same time remarkable uniformity and wide divergence.

  39. These were summarized into three cahiers for each province, and eventually into three, one from each order, for all France, and these last three were in due course presented to Louis XVI.

  40. As a source of information on the economic and social condition of a country, the cahiers are the most wonderful collection of documents available for the historian.

  41. The cahiers of the third estate are, in truth, few and defective, yet there are some communities that have done their work well.

  42. The book proved indeed a delusion and a snare, for of its six hundred pages more than nine tenths pertained to church affairs,--were part and parcel of the cahiers of the clergy.

  43. Already the clergy have presented their cahiers in the shape of church histories and theological essays innumerable.

  44. When this complex process had been completed and the three residual cahiers had been given to the king, the States-general, the only representative body of France, was dissolved.

  45. He is the editor of the Forum at Munich, and like our own Peguy, when he began to publish his Cahiers de la Quinzaine, he fills almost the whole of his review with his own burning articles.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cahiers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.