A league of the nobles of Little Poland formed in 1702 to oppose Charles XII of Sweden and support Augustus II.
Sanfedisti.
A Neapolitan secret society established in Naples, with the approval of the Pope, during the first decade of the nineteenth century, to oppose the Carbonari and support the Church.
Sanquhar Declaration.
A declaration issued by Richard Cameron and other leaders of the Covenanters in 1680, proclaiming that Charles I had forfeited the crown by his breach of the Covenant.
Sans Gêne, Madame.
The sobriquet of the Maréchale Lefebvre, Duchesse de Dantzic, given her on account of her free and easy manners at the Court of Napoleon. She had been a washerwoman, and afterwards followed her husband in the wars as a vivandière.
Sans Souci, the Philosopher of.
Voltaire’s name for Frederick the Great of Prussia (1740-86).