Thiers

[ tyer ]

/ ˈtyɛr /

noun

Louis A·dolphe

[lwee a-dawlf] /lwi aˈdɔlf/,1797–1877, French statesman: president 1871–73.

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Had he been elected, he might have become the rival of Thiers.

Balzac |Frederick Lawton
Thiers says that the Directorial Republic exhibited at this time a scene of distressing confusion.

Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century |Various
Thiers was the only man at whom M. Guizot tilted in that way.

An Englishman in Paris |Albert D. (Albert Dresden) Vandam
Just at this time (in May) Thiers played a trick on the king, and forced him to make him president of the cabinet.

History of the Jews, Vol. V (of 6) |Heinrich Graetz

It is not true that Thiers was the son of a poor laborer of Aix.

The Intellectual Life |=Philip Gilbert Hamerton

British Dictionary definitions for thiers

Thiers

/ (French tjɛr) /

noun

Louis Adolphe (lwi adɔlf). 1797–1877, French statesman and historian. After the Franco-Prussian war, he suppressed the Paris Commune and became first president of the Third Republic (1871–73). His policies made possible the paying off of the war indemnity exacted by Germany

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Thiers

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