conservatrice

Updated: May 13, 2025

I was so new to it all that most of the names of the rank and file were unknown to me, and the appreciations of the votes and the anecdotes and side-lights on the voters said nothing to me. We heard the well-known sayings very often those days: "La Republique sera conservatrice ou elle ne sera pas" and "La Republique sans Republicains," attributed to M. Thiers and Marshal MacMahon.

Mary Alsop King Waddington - My First Years as a Frenchwoman, 1876-1879

En France, l'experience de la Republique democratique et pacifique s'est faite dans les conditions les plus favorables, et a echoue. Elle n'est ni conservatrice ni reformatrice. Tout en restant bourgeoise, elle est pardessus tout prodigue.

John Knox Laughton - Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. : In Two Volumes. Volume II.