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Example sentences for: regent

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The French Wars of Religion pitted the Catholic forces of the regent Catherine de Médicis against the Protestant (Huguenot) camp headed by Henri de Navarre.
In 1976 we had a flat on Regent's Park Road, facing Primrose Hill, and down the street was one of the familiar blue-and-white plaques that said: "From 1873 to 1895, here lived Frederick Engels, Political Philosopher."
In exchange for helping the regent end a revolt of uppity Malay chiefs, Brooke was made Rajah of Sarawak in 1841, with his capital in Kuching (founded by the Malays just 11 years earlier).
Certainly, in the case of the Crown , as ample evidence will show, reference is so made specifically to avoid mentioning a particular regent and not as a figure of speech employed for rhetorical effect.
In the days of Philippe d’Orléans, Prince Regent while Louis XV was a child, the Palais-Royal was the scene of notorious orgies.