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Champs de Mai

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The same as the Champs de Mars (q.v.), transferred after 755 to the month of May. Napoleon I. revived these meetings during the “Hundred Days” (June 1st, 1815).

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Chalk and Cheese
Chalks
Challenge to the Array (A)
Challenge to the Polls (A)
Challenging a Jury
Cham (kam)
Chambre Ardente (French)
Chameleon
Champ de Manœuvre (Le)
Champs de Mai
Champs de Mars
Champak
Champerty
Champion and Severall
Champion of England
Chance
Chancel
Chancellor
Chancellor of England (The)
Chancellor of the Exchequer (The)