noun
definition
A valley, often wooded and often with no river
definition
A cirque.
Examples of combes in a Sentence
Combes; and on the fall of the Combes ministry in January 1905 he was invited by the president to form a new ministry.
The parties of the Left in the chamber, united upon this question in the Bloc republicain, supported Combes in his application of the law of 1901 on the religious associations, and voted the new bill on the congregations (1904), and under his guidance France took the first definite steps toward the separation of church and state.
He refused, however, to support the Combes ministry, and formed a Radical dissident group, which grew in strength and eventually caused the fall of the ministry.
His defence of the principle of freedom of association led him, incongruously enough, to support the religious Congregations against Emile Combes.
In 1902 he was again returned as deputy for Albi, and during the Combes administration his influence secured the coherence of the radical-socialist coalition known as the bloc. In 1 9 04 he founded the socialist paper, L'Humanite.
On the fall of the Combes ministry he became less prominent in French politics.
He sat with the Socialist Radicals, and vigorously supported the Combes ministry.
Although he had been most violent in denouncing the anti-clerical policy of the Combes cabinet, he now announced his willingness to recognize a new regime to replace the Concordat, and gave the government his support in the establishment of the Associations cultuerles, while he secured some mitigation of the severities attending the separation.
He held somewhat aloof from the political struggles of the Waldeck-Rousseau and Combes ministries, travelling considerably in foreign countries.