buveur-de-sang

Updated: May 4, 2025

After Waterloo, my father, whom the event had rather saddened than surprised, retired into private life, and was not interfered with except that it was generally averred of him that he was a Jacobin, a buveur-de-sang one of those men with whom no one could afford to be on intimate terms.

Anatole France - The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard