conventionnel

plural conventionnels

1. historyA member of the French National Convention.

   The Conventionnels who had voted for the measure included many who had worked closely with deputies now under arrest for their part in the Terror.

   2006, Howard G Brown, Ending the French Revolution, University of Virginia, published 2008, page 27

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   To calm their nerves and dispel the phantoms of their imaginations, the conventionnels proposed a series of fantastic draconian measures designed to insure tranquillity during the voting.

   1979, David P Jordan, The King's Trial, University of California, published 1979, page 178

   When the crowds burst again into the assembly hall, they bore with them on a pike the head of a conventionnel, Féraud, who had tried to bar their path.

   2004, David Andress, The French Revolution and the People, London, page 236