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Montagnards

[the mountain party ]. The extreme democratic politicians in the French Revolution; so called because they occupied the highest tier of benches in the hall of the National Convention. The opposite party sat on the level of the floor, called the “plain.”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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