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One who lights fires with petrol, especially (historical) a revolutionary who attacked public buildings in this way in Paris in 1871..
1877, quoted in 1990, Walter Boehlich, The Letters of Sigmund Freud to Eduard Silberstein, 1871-1881# In times like these one is tempted to turn into a petroleur.
Caution was necessary in moving about, the pavement had to be avoided, as the impression conveyed to the mind of the sentry, if he saw anyone near a house, was that it must be a petroleur or a petroleuse.
The work of the incendiaries of 1792 was only to be finished by the petroleurs of 1871. Night was come. A great number of the Parisian population were groaning, but the revolutionists triumphed with joy.
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Petroleur means One who lights fires with petrol, especially (historical) a revolutionary who attacked public buildings in this way in Paris in 1871..
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1877, quoted in 1990, Walter Boehlich, The Letters of Sigmund Freud to Eduard Silberstein, 1871-1881# In times like these one is tempted to turn into a petroleur.
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