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‖ roi fainéant|rwa fɛneɑ̃|
[Fr., lit. ‘sluggard king’: see fainéant n. and a.]
One of the later Merovingian kings of France, whose power was merely nominal. Also transf. and fig.
1841[see peshwa]. 1879Encycl. Brit. IX. 530/2 Children were kings in both Austrasia and Neustria; we reach the days of the ‘do⁓naught’ princes, the rois fainéants, and of the struggle between the mayors of Austrasia and Neustria. 1898L. Sergeant Franks xiv. 199 Dagobert's death..marked the beginning of a series of Merovingian rois fainéants. 1929W. R. Inge Assessments & Anticipations ii. 35, I have acquiesced in the undignified rôle of a roi fainéant. 1935Chambers's Encycl. IV. 810/1 Charles Martel, maire du palais to the ‘Rois Fainéants’, defeated Arab invaders at Poitiers. 1966Economist 1 Jan. 23/1 The launching of the Sputnik in 1957, in the reign of the roi fainéant, President Eisenhower, seemed to justify Krushchevian boasts that America's days of..supremacy were numbered. 1975J. H. M. Salmon Society in Crisis: France in 16th Cent. viii. 193 The last years of Charles IX were those of a roi fainéant. The king ordered a new offensive against the Protestants of the south and La Noue in the west, but there were no resources to finance his armies. |