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BLUEBEARD , the See also:monster of See also:Charles See also:Perrault's See also:tale of Barbe Bleue, who murdered his wives and hid their bodies in a locked See also:room. Perrault's tale was first printed in his Histoires et contes du terns passe (1697). The essentials of the story—Bluebeard's See also:prohibition to his wife to open a certain See also:door during his See also:absence, her disobedience, her See also:discovery of a gruesome See also:secret, and her timely See also:- RESCUE (in Middle Eng. rescous, from O. Fr. recousse, Low Lat. rescussa, from reexcussa,reexcutere, to shake off again, re, again, ex, off, quatere, to shake)
rescue from death—are to be found in other See also:folklore stories, none of which, however, has attained the fame of Bluebeard. A See also:close parallel exists in an Esthonian See also:legend of a See also:husband who had already killed eleven wives, and was prevented from killing the twelfth, who had opened a secret room, by a gooseherd, the friend of her childhood. In " The See also:Feather See also:Bird " of See also:Grimm's Hausmarchen, three sisters are the victims, the third being rescued by her See also:brothers. Bluebeard, though Perrault does not See also:state the number of his crimes, is generally credited with the See also:murder of seven wives. His See also:history belongs to the See also:common stock of folklore, and has even been ingeniously fitted with a mythical See also:- INTERPRETATION (from Lat. interpretari, to expound, explain, inter pres, an agent, go-between, interpreter; inter, between, and the root pret-, possibly connected with that seen either in Greek 4 p4'ew, to speak, or irpa-rrecv, to do)
interpretation. In See also:France the Bluebeard legend has its See also:local habitation in See also:Brittany, but whether the existing traditions connecting him with Gilles de See also:Rais (q.v.) or Comorre the Cursed, a See also:Breton See also:chief of the 6th See also:century, were anterior to Perrault's 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, we have no means of determining. The See also:identification of Bluebeard with Gilles de Rais, the bete d'extermination of See also:Michelet's forcible See also:language, persists locally in the neighbourhood of the various castles of the See also:baron, especially at Machecoul and Tiffauges, the chief scenes of his infamous crimes. Gilles de Rais, however, had only one wife, who survived him, and his victims were in the See also:majority of cases See also:young boys. The traditional connexion may arise simply from 'the not improbable association of two monstrous tales. The less widespread identification of Bluebeard with Comorre is supported by a See also:series of frescoes dating only a few years later than the publication of Perrault's See also:story, in a See also:chapel at St See also:Nicolas de Bieuzy dedicated to St Tryphine, in which the tale of Bluebeard is depicted as the story of the See also:saint, who in history was the wife of Comorre.
Comorre or Conomor had his See also:original headquarters at Carhaix, in See also:Finistere. He extended his authority by See also:marriage with the widow of See also:Iona, chief of Domnonia, and attempted the See also:life of his stepson Judwal, who fled to the Frankish See also:court. About 547 or 548 he obtained in marriage, through the intercession of St See also:Gildas, Tryphine, daughter of Weroc, See also:count of See also:Vannes. The pair lived in See also:peace at See also:Castel Finans for some time, but Comorre, disappointed in his ambitions in the Vannetais, presently threatened Tryphine. She took See also:flight, but her husband found her hiding in a See also:wood, when he gave her a See also:wound on the See also:skull and See also:left her for dead. She was tended and restored to See also:health by St Gildas, and after the See also:birth of her son retired to a See also:convent of her own See also:foundation. Eventually Comorre was defeated and slain by Judwal. In legend St Tryphine was decapitated and miraculously restored to life by Gildas. Alain Bouchard (Grander croniques, See also:Nantes, 1531) asserts that Comorre had already put several wives to See also:death before he married Tryphine. In the
Legendes bretonnes of the count d'Amezeuil the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church legend becomes a charming See also:fairy tale.
See also E. A.
See also:Vizetelly, Bluebeard (1902); E. See also:Sidney Hartland, " The Forbidden Chamber," in Folklore, vol. iii. (1885) ; and the See also:editions of the Contes of Charles Perrault (q.v.). Cf. A. France, See also:Les See also:Sept Femmes de Barbe Bleue (1909).
See also:BLUE-See also:BOOK, the See also:general name given to the reports and other documents printed 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 See also:parliament of the See also:United See also:Kingdom, so called from their being usually covered with blue See also:paper, though some are See also:bound in drab and others have See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white covers. The See also:printing of its proceedings was first adopted by the See also:House of See also:Commons in 1681, and in 1836 was commenced the practice of selling See also:parliamentary papers to the public. All notices of questions, resolutions, votes and proceedings in both Houses of Parliament are issued each See also:day during the session; other publications include the various papers issued by the different See also:government departments, the reports of committees and commissions of inquiry, public bills, as well as returns, See also:correspondence, &c., specially ordered to be printed by either house. The papers of each session are so arranged as to admit of being bound up in See also:regular order, and are well indexed. The terms upon which blue-books, single papers, &c., are issued to the general public are one See also:halfpenny per See also:sheet of four pages, but for an See also:annual subscription of £20 all the parliamentary publications of the See also:year may be obtained; but subscriptions can be arranged so that almost any particular class of publication can be obtained—for example, the daily votes and proceedings can be obtained for an annual subscription of £3, the House of Lords papers for £1o, or the House of Commons papers for £15. Any publication can also be See also:purchased separately.
Most See also:foreign countries have a distinctive See also:colour for the binding of their See also:official publications. That of the United States varies, but foreign See also:diplomatic correspondence is bound in red. The United States government publications are not only on See also:sale (as a See also:rule) but are widely supplied gratis, with the result that important publications soon get out of See also:print, and it is difficult to obtain See also:access to many valuable reports or other See also:information, except at a public library. See also:German official publications are bound in white; See also:French, in yellow; See also:Austrian, in red; Portuguese, in white; See also:Italian, in See also:green; See also:Spanish, in red; Mexican, in green; See also:Japanese, in See also:grey; See also:Chinese, in yellow.
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