France vs Polysynody - What's the difference?
france | polysynody |
A country in Western Europe which borders Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Monaco, Andorra and Spain, is a member state of the European Union and has a population of 62 million inhabitants. Official name: French Republic ().
* 1998 , Shanny Peer, France on Display: Peasants, Provincials, and Folklore (ISBN 0791437108), page 2:
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A form of government administered by several councils rather than individual ministers; specifically that of Regency France from 1715-1718.
*2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 40:
*:The abbé de Saint-Pierre, for example, saw in the principle of Polysynody a framework for refashioning the polity so as to make it markedly less authoritarian than under Louis XIV.
*2006 , Ellen M McClure, Sunspots and the Sun King , p. 262:
*:Government under polysynody is the affair of human individuals, who through their own efforts create an entity that surpasses them.
*2004 , Janet Lloyd, translating Joseph Pérez, The Spanish Inquisition , Bookmarque 2006, p. 108:
*:The Council was thus wholly dependent upon the civil authorities. It constituted one of the elements of the polysynody that was characteristic of the Hapsburgs.
As a proper noun France
is a country in Western Europe which borders Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Monaco, Andorra and Spain, is a member state of the European Union, and has a population of 62 million inhabitants. Official name: French Republic (République française).As a noun polysynody is
a form of government administered by several councils rather than individual ministers; specifically that of Regency France from 1715-1718.france
English
(wikipedia France)Alternative forms
* Fraunce (obsolete)Proper noun
(Frances)- Although scholars have offered different chronologies and causalities for the move toward modernity, most have resolved the paradox of the two Frances' by placing them in sequence: "diverse '''France''' gave way over time as modern centralized ' France gathered force."
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- , a French poet, journalist, and novelist
