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See also:BEUGNOT, JACQUES See also:CLAUDE, See also:COUNT (1761—1835) , See also:French politician, was See also:born at See also:Bar-sur-See also:Aube. A See also:magistrate under the old regime, he was elected See also:deputy to the Legislative See also:Assembly (1791), then to the See also:Convention. He was involved in the proscription of the See also:Girondists and imprisoned until the 9th See also:Thermidor. He next entered into relations with the See also:family of See also:Bonaparte, and in 1799, after the 18th See also:Brumaire, again entered politics, becoming successively See also:prefect of the See also:lower See also:Seine, councillor of See also:state, and See also:finance See also:minister to See also:Jerome Bonaparte, See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Westphalia. In 18o8 Beugnot, who had mean-while been appointed See also:administrator of the duchy of See also:Berg-See also:Cleves, received the See also:cross of officer of the See also:Legion of See also:Honour with the See also:title of count. He returned to See also:France in 1813, after the See also:battle of See also:Leipzig, and was made prefect of the See also:department of See also:Nord. In 1814 he was a member of the provisional See also:government as minister of the interior; and by 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 XVIII. he was named director-See also:general of See also:police and afterwards minister of marine. He followed Louis to See also:Ghent during the See also:Hundred Days, and became
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one of his confidants. He contributed to draw up Louis's See also:charter, and in his See also:memoirs boasted of having furnished the See also:text of the See also:proclamation addressed by the king to the French See also:people before his return to France; but it is known now that it was another text that was adopted. Lacking the support of the ultra-royalists, he was given the title of minister of state without See also:portfolio, which was See also:equivalent to a retirement. Elected deputy, he attached himself to the moderate party, and defended the See also:liberty of the See also:press. In 1831 Louis Philippe made him a peer of France and director-general of manufactures and See also:commerce. He died on the 24th of See also:June 1835.
His son, AUGUSTE See also:ARTHUR BEUGNOT (1797–1865), was an historian and See also:scholar, who published an Essai sur See also:les institutions de See also:Saint Louis (1821), Histoire de la destruction du paganisme en occident (2 vols., 1885), and edited the Olim of the See also:parlement of See also:Paris, the Assizes of See also:Jerusalem, and the Coutumes de Beauvoisis of Philippe de See also:Beaumanoir. He was a member of the chamber of peers under Louis Philippe, and opposed See also:Villemain's See also:plan for freedom of See also:education. After 1848 he maintained the same role, acting as reporter of the loi See also:Falloux. He retired from public See also:life after the coup d'etat of See also:Napoleon III., and died on the 15th of See also:March 1865.
The Memoires of J. C. Beugnot were published by his See also:grandson, Count See also:Albert Beugnot (2nd ed., Paris, 1868) ; see H. Wallon, Eloges academiques (1882); and E. Dejean, Un Prefet du Consulat: J. C. Beugnot (Paris, 1907).
BEUL$, See also:CHARLES ERNEST (1826–1874), French archaeologist and politician, was born at See also:Saumur on the 29th of June 1826. He was educated at the Ecole Normale, and after having held the professorship of See also:rhetoric at See also:Moulins for a See also:year, was sent to See also:Athens in 1851 as one of the professors in the I See also:cole Francaise there. He had the See also:good See also:fortune to discover the See also:propylaea of the See also:Acropolis, and his See also:work, L'Acropole d' Athenes (2nd ed., 1863), was published by See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order of the minister of public instruction. On his return to France, promotion and distinctions followed rapidly upon his first successes. He was made See also:doctor of letters, See also:chevalier of the Legion of Honour, See also:professor of See also:archaeology at the Bibliotheque Imperiale, member of the Academie See also:des See also:Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres and perpetual secretary of the See also:Academic des See also:Beaux-Arts. He took See also:great See also:interest in See also:political affairs, with which the last few years of his life were entirely occupied. Elected a member of the See also:National Assembly in 1871, he zealously supported the Orleanist party. In May–November 1873 he was minister of the interior in the See also:Broglie See also:ministry. He died by his own See also:hand on the 4th of See also:April 1874. His other important See also:works are: Etudes sur he Peloponnese (2nd ed., 1875); Les Monnaies d'Athenes (1858); L'See also:Architecture au siecle de Pisistrate (186o); Fouilles a See also:Carthage (1861). Beule was also the author of high-class popular works on See also:artistic and See also:historical subjects: Histoire de fart grec avant See also:Pericles (2nd ed., 187o);; Le Proces des Cesars (1867-187o, in four parts; Auguste, sa See also:famine et ses amis; Tibere et l'heritage d'Auguste; Le Sang de Germanicus; See also:Titus et sa dynastie).
See Ideville, See also:Monsieur Beule, Souvenirs personnels (1874).
End of Article: BEUGNOT, JACQUES CLAUDE, COUNT (1761—1835)
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