va-nu-pieds

A va-nu-pieds disguised into a general by a Corsican adventurer masquerading as an emperor.

A Set of Six 1906

A va-nu-pieds disguised into a general by a Corsican adventurer masquerading as an emperor.

A Set of Six Joseph Conrad 1890

'How,' I cried, thyself and thy friend Madame de Bois-Sombre, were you not enough to fill it, that you should throw open that chamber to good-for-nothings, to _va-nu-pieds_, to the very rabble? '

A Beleaguered City Being a Narrative of Certain Recent Events in the City of Semur, in the Department of the Haute Bourgogne. A Story of the Seen and the Unseen 1862

The Princess only maintained herself in the place through the aid of the rabble _va-nu-pieds_, who feasted and danced all night at her expense, and who shouted in her ears a hundred ribald jests against Mazarin, compelling both herself and her son to repeat them.

Political Women (Vol. 1 of 2) Sutherland Menzies 1861

_va-nu-pieds_, 205; forced to take refuge hastily in the citadel of Montrond, 263.

Political Women (Vol. 1 of 2) Sutherland Menzies 1861