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Word: fusilleur (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...rush the Chamber of Deputies on the opposite bank. Mobile Guards, assembled by the Daladier Government, fired into the crowd: 24 were killed, hundreds injured. Next day, without waiting for a vote from the Chamber, the Premier resigned, a thoroughly discredited, despised politician. The Right nicknamed him Le Fusilleur ("The Rifleman"). The Left accused him of cowardice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: June and September | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

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