(French: `Highlander,` or `Mountain Man`), any member of the hill-dwelling peoples of the Indochinese Peninsula. In Vietnam the Montagnards include ... [3 related articles]any of the radical Jacobin deputies in the National Convention during the French Revolution. Noted for their democratic outlook, the Montagnards ... [11 related articles]
Member of a group in the legislative assembly and National Convention convened after the French Revolution. They supported the more extreme aims of the revolution, and were destroyed as a political...
(sometimes l.c.) a member of a dark-skinned people of mixed ethnic origins inhabiting the highland areas of Vietnam.