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- noun Obsolete form of
republic .
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Examples
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Mercure Plaza R é publique, 5 Rue Stella 69002 Lyon, www.accorhotels.com/...mercure-lyon-plaza-republique/index.shtml.
Lyon Offers Business Travelers a Central Hub Javier Espinoza 2011
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We ate at a really wonderful cafe in the republique where we stayed but I cannot remember the name of it for the life of me.
Ah, Paris! 2008
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But the real threat to la republique is the bankruptcy of the establishment candidates -- one a gangster, one a dullard -- and the void that's left voters believing their only real choice is between abstinence and protest.
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A few of the soldiers cried "Vive la republique!" and every one returned home with countenances in which delight was by no means the prevailing expression.
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But those who are most afraid, or most decidedly aristocrates, subjoin to their registers, "All good republicans:" or, _ "Vive la republique, une et indivisible."
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"Vive la France;" whilst, occupying a commanding place, the following long yarn -- "Servons nous votre reine mais honneur à la republique français," shone out in great gilt letters.
In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 J. J. Smith
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C'est a qui jettera plus promptement le masque -- on dirait, a lire les ecrits qui paraissent, a entendre les conversations des gens qui se croient dans les confidences, que c'en est fait de la republique: la Convention, secondee, poussee meme par le zele et l'energie des bons citoyens a remporte une grande victoire sur les Terroristes, sur les successeurs de Robespierre, il semble qu'elle n'ait plus qu'a proclamer la royaute.
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* Garat observes, it was a maxim of Danton, _ "Que ceux qui fesaient les affaires de la republique devaient aussi faireles leurs," _ that who undertook the care of the republic should also take care of themselves.
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* Garat observes, it was a maxim of Danton, _ "Que ceux qui fesaient les affaires de la republique devaient aussi faireles leurs," _ that who undertook the care of the republic should also take care of themselves.
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A few of the soldiers cried "Vive la republique!" and every one returned home with countenances in which delight was by no means the prevailing expression.
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