Grand Council

Grand Council may refer to:

  • Grand Council (Qing Dynasty), an important policy-making body in the Qing Empire
  • Great Council of Venice, legislative body that existed from 1172 to 1797
  • Grand Conseil, two institutions during the Ancien Régime in France
  • Grand Council (Switzerland), a unicameral legislative style adopted by a number of cantons in Switzerland
  • Grand Council of Fascism, the main body of Mussolini's Fascist government in Italy
  • Grand Council of the Crees, the political body that represents the approximately 14,000 Crees of the James Bay and Nunavik regions
  • Grand Council (Mi'kmaq)

Famous quotes containing the words grand and/or council:

    “That grand drama in a hundred acts, which is reserved for the next two centuries of Europe—the most terrible, most questionable and perhaps also the most hopeful of all dramas.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “There by some wrinkled stones round a leafless tree
    With beards askew, their eyes dull and wild
    Twelve ragged men, the council of charity
    Wandering the face of the earth a fatherless child....”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)