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See also:ANTRAIGUES, See also:EMMANUEL See also:HENRI See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
LOUIS See also:ALEXANDRE DE LAUNAY, See also:COMTE D' (c. 1755-1812), See also:French publicist and See also:political adventurer, was a See also:nephew of See also:Francois Emmanuel de See also:Saint-See also:Priest (1735-1821), one of the last ministers of Louis XVI. He was a See also:cavalry See also:captain, but, having little See also:taste for the See also:army, See also:left it and travelled extensively, especially in the See also:East. On his return to See also:Paris, he sought the society of philosophers and artists, visited See also:Voltaire at Ferney for three months, but was more attracted by J. J. See also:Rousseau, with whom he became somewhat intimate. He published a Memoire sur See also:les etats-generaux, sup-ported the Revolution enthusiastically when it See also:broke out, was elected See also:deputy, and took the See also:oath to the constitution; but he suddenly changed his mind completely, became a defender of the See also:monarchy and emigrated in 1990. He was the See also:secret See also:agent of the comte de See also:Provence (Louis XVIII.) at different courts of See also:Europe, and at the same See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time received See also:money from the courts he visited. He published a number of See also:pamphlets,
See also:Des monstres ravagent partout, Point d'accommodement, &c.
At See also:Venice, where he was attache to the See also:Russian See also:legation, he was arrested in 1797, but escaped to See also:Russia. Sent as Russian attache to See also:Dresden, he published a violent pamphlet against See also:Napoleon I., and was expelled by the Saxon See also:government. He then went to See also:London, and it was universally believed that he betrayed the secret articles of the treaty of See also:Tilsit to the See also:British See also:cabinet, but his See also:recent biographer, Pingaud, contests this. In 1812 he and his wife Madame Saint-Huberty, an operatic See also:singer, were assassinated by an See also:Italian servant whom they had dismissed. It has never been known whether the See also:murder was committed from private or political motives.
See H. Vaschalde, See also:Notice bibliographique sur Louis Alexandre de Launay, comte d'Antraigues, sa See also:vie et ses oeuvres; Leonce Pingaud, Un Agent secret sous la revolution et 1'See also:empire, le comte d'Antraigues (Paris, 1893) ; Edouard de See also:Goncourt, La Saint-Huberty et l'See also:opera au X VIII° siecle.
End of Article: ANTRAIGUES, EMMANUEL HENRI LOUIS ALEXANDRE DE LAUNAY, COMTE
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