[ad. F. Fayettisme, f. (La) Fayette: see -ISM.] The doctrine and practice of the followers of La Fayette.
1793. Burke, Policy of Allies, Wks. VII. 138. The question is not between the rabble of systems, Fayetteism, Condorcetism, Monarchism, or Democratism, or Federalism, on the one side, and the fundamental laws of France on the other—or between all these systems amongst themselves.
1794. Abbe Barruel, Hist. Clergy during French Rev. (1795), 227. All the known friends of Fayettism.
1844. W. H. Kelly, trans. L. Blanc’s The History of Ten Years, 1830–1840, I. 311. M. de Lafayette … said. ‘Doubtless those who have recommended it have not had the misfortune to see their family, their friends, and the first citizens of France, dragged to the scaffold; they have not had the misfortune to see unhappy men immolated on pretence of Fayétism.
