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See also:BRANTOME, See also:PIERRE DE BOURDEILLE, SEIGNEUR AND See also:ABBE DE (c. 1540-1614) , See also:French historian and biographer, was See also:born in See also:Perigord about 1540. He was the third son of the See also:baron de Bourdeille. His See also:mother and his maternal grandmother were both attached to the See also:court of See also:Marguerite of See also:Valois, and at her See also:death in 154y he went to See also:Paris, and later (1555) to See also:Poitiers, to finish his See also:education. He was given several benefices, the most important of which was the See also:abbey of Brant6me (see below), but he had no inclination for an ecclesiastical career. At an See also:early See also:age he entered the prcfession of arms. He showed himself a brave soldier, and was brought into contact with most of the See also:great leaders who were seeking fame or See also:fortune in the See also:wars that distracted the See also:continent. He travelled much in See also:Italy; in See also:Scotland, where he accompanied See also:Mary See also:Stuart (then the widow of See also:Francis I.); in See also:England, where he saw See also:Queen See also:Elizabeth (1561, 1579); in See also:Morocco (1564); and in See also:Spain and See also:Portugal. He fought on the galleys of the 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 See also:Malta, and accompanied his great friend, the French See also:commander Philippe See also:Strozzi (See also:grandson of Filippo Strozzi, the See also:Italian See also:general, and See also:nephew of See also:Piero), in his expedition against See also:Terceira, in which Strozzi was killed (1582). During the wars of See also:religion under See also:Charles IX. he fought in the ranks of the Catholics, but he allowed himself to be won over temporarily by the ideas of the
reformers, and though he publicly separated himself from Protestantism it had a marked effect on his mind. A fall from his See also:horse compelled him to retire into private See also:life about 1589, and he spent his last years in See also:writing his See also:Memoirs of the illustrious men and See also:women whom he had known. He died on the 15th of See also:July 1614.
Brantome See also:left distinct orders that his See also:manuscript should be printed; a first edition appeared, however, See also:late (1665–1666) and not very See also:complete. Of the later See also:editions the most valuable are: one in 15 volumes (1740); another 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 See also:Jean See also:Nicolas Monmerque (1780–1860) in 8 volumes (1821–1824), reproduced in See also:Buchan's See also:Pantheon litteraire; that of the -Bibliotheque elzevirienne, begun (1858) by P. See also:Merimee and L. Lacour, and finished, with vol. xiii., only in 1893; and Lalanne's edition for the Societe de 1'Histoire de See also:France (12 vols., 1864–1896). Brantome can hardly be regarded as a historian proper, and, his Memoirs cannot be accepted as a very trustworthy source of See also:information. But he writes in a See also:quaint conversational way, pouring forth his thoughts, observations or facts without order or See also:system, and with the greatest frankness and naivete. His See also:works certainly gave an admirable picture of the general court-life of the 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, with its unblushing and undisguised profligacy. There is not a homme illustre or a See also:dame galante in all his See also:gallery of portraits who is not stained with See also:vice; and yet the whole is narrated with the most complete unconsciousness that there is anything objectionable in their conduct.
The edition of L. Lalanne has great merit, being the first to indicate the See also:Spanish, Italian and French See also:sources on which Brantome See also:drew, but it did not utilize all the existing See also:MSS. It was only after Lalanne's death that the earliest were obtained for the Bibliotheque Nationale. At Paris and at See also:Chantilly (Musee See also:Conde) all Brantome's See also:original MSS., as revised by him several times, are now collected (see the Bibliotheque de l'ecole See also:des Charles, 1904), and a new and definitive edition has therefore become possible.
Bra.ntfine's poems (which amount to more than 2200 verses) were first published in 1881; see Lalanne's edition.
End of Article: BRANTOME, PIERRE DE BOURDEILLE, SEIGNEUR AND ABBE DE (c. 1540-1614)
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