The Collaborative International Dictionary
Marseillais \Mar`sei`llais"\, a. m. Marseillaise \Mar`sei`llaise"\, a. f.[F.] Of or pertaining to Marseilles, in France, or to its inhabitants.
Marseillaise hymn, or The Marseillaise, the national anthem of France, popularly so called. It was composed in 1792, by Rouget de l'Isle, an officer then stationed at Strasburg. In Paris it was sung for the first time by the band of men who came from Marseilles to aid in the revolution of August 10, 1792; whence the name.
Marseillais \Mar`sei`llais"\, n. m. Marseillaise \Mar`sei`llaise"\, n. f.[F.] A native or inhabitant of Marseilles.
Usage examples of "marseillais".
When they regrouped, Westermann and Fournier led a furious counter-attack, with the Marseillais in the van shooting their way over the empty space towards the palace.
J-B Loys was a Marseillais lawyer and merchant who had denounced his own two brothers as royalists and who had been honorably wounded in the attack on the Tuileries.
A new regime was installed, dominated by supporters of the leading Marseillais Girondins, Barbaroux and Rebecquy, many of whom came from the mercantile and commercial elite of the port city, as indeed was the case at Bordeaux.
There was to be no mass, and no music except the Wedding March, which the harmonium player, a Marseillais employed in the date-packing trade, insisted on performing to do honour to Mademoiselle Enfilden, who had taken such an interest in the music of the church.
And a young man entered whom we recognised at once as the chief clerk in the Foreign Department of the Credit Marseillais, the principal bank all along the Riviera.
Madame Picardet to inquire at the Credit Marseillais about his bank had been solemnly gone through on purpose to blind us to the obvious truth that Colonel Clay was already in full possession of all such facts about us.
Nobody could even estimate how many priests had been murdered in the massacres last September when the Marseillais had gone mad, slaughtering the men, women and children in the prisons.
The Marseillais, the rabble army who had poured out of the dockyards and prisons of Marseille and Genoa, and marched on Paris, were everywhere.
These Marseillais were red-hot republicans, and in judging the political situation of that moment this constitutes one of the salient points.
I know not if that were the name of the round-faced, round-bodied little Marseillais who took toll at the desk.
Proust and Reynaldo Hahn were at any moment expected to materialize, the eccentric spouse of a rich sports-minded Marseillais aristocrat, and an affectionate, perhaps undiscriminating, comrade of contemporary Julien Sorels: my slot machine exactly.
Indeed, like the Marseillais she will go double the distance, wearing a large hat, in order to stay on the shady side of the pavement.