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See also:CHOISY, See also:FRANCOIS See also:TIMOLEON, APIA DE (1644-1724) , See also:French author, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 16th of See also:August 1644,
and died in Paris on the end of See also:October 1724. His See also:father was attached to the See also:household of the See also:duke of See also:- ORLEANS
- ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
- ORLEANS, DUKES OF
- ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
- ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
- ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
- ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
- ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
- ORLEANS, PHILIP I
- ORLEANS, PHILIP II
Orleans, and his See also:mother, who was on intimate terms with See also:Anne of See also:Austria, was regularly called upon to amuse 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 XIV. By a whim of his mother, the boy was dressed like a girl until he was eighteen, and, after appearing for a See also:short 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 in See also:man's See also:costume, he resumed woman's See also:dress on the advice—doubtless satirical—of Madame de La Fayette. He delighted in the most extravagant toilettes until he was publicly rebuked by the duc de See also:Montausier, when he retired for some time to the provinces, using his disguise to assist his numerous intrigues. He had been made an See also:abbe in his childhood, and poverty, induced by his extravagance, drove him to live on his See also:benefice at Sainte-See also:Seine in See also:Burgundy, where he found among his neighbours a kindred spirit in See also:Bussy-Rabutin. He visited See also:Rome in the See also:suite of the See also:cardinal de See also:Bouillon in 1676, and shortly afterwards a serious illness brought about a sudden and rather frivolous See also:conversion to See also:religion. In 1685 he accompanied the See also:chevalier de Chaumont on a See also:mission to See also:Siam. He was ordained See also:priest, and received various ecclesiastical preferments. He was admitted to the See also:Academy in 1687, and wrote a number of See also:historical and religious See also:works, of which the most notable are the following:---Quatre dialogues sur l'immortalite de l'dme . . . (1684), written with the Abbe Dangeau and explaining his conversion; Traduction de l'See also:Imitation de Jesus-See also:Christ (1692); Histoire de See also:France sous See also:les regnes de See also:Saint Louis ... de See also:Charles V et Charles VI (5 vols.,
vol. iii.
End of Article: CHOISY, FRANCOIS TIMOLEON, APIA DE (1644-1724)
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