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See also:COLLINS, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM See also:WILKIE (1824–1889) , See also:English novelist, See also:elder son of William Collins, R.A., the landscape painter, was See also:born in See also:London on the 8th of See also:January 1824. He was educated at a private school in Highbury, and when only a small boy of twelve was taken by his parents to See also:Italy, where the See also:family lived for three years. On their return to See also:England Wilkie Collins was articled to a See also:firm in the See also:tea See also:trade, but four years later he abandoned that business for the See also:law, and was entered at See also:Lincoln's See also:Inn in 1846, being called to the See also:bar three years later. He found little See also:pleasure in his new career, however; though what he learned in it was exceedingly valuable to him later. On his See also:father's See also:death in 1847 See also:young Collins made his first See also:essay in literature, See also:publishing the See also:Life of William Collins, in two volumes, in the following See also:year. In 185o he put forth his first See also:work of fiction, Antonina, or the Fall of See also:Rome, which was clearly inspired by his life in Italy. See also:Basil appeared in 1852, and Hide and Seek in 1854. About this 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 he made the acquaintance of See also:Charles See also:Dickens, and begat,
tumult; but it was not until 1791 that he became a figure of importance. Then, however, by the publication of L'Almanach du Pere See also:Gerard,' a little See also:book setting forth, in homely See also:style, the advantages of a constitutional See also:monarchy, he suddenly acquired See also:great popularity. His renown was soon increased by his active interference on behalf of the Swiss of the See also:Chateau-Vieux See also:Regiment, condemned to the galleys for See also:mutiny at See also:Nancy. His efforts resulted in their liberation; he went himself to See also:Brest in See also:search of them; and a civic feast was decreed on his behalf and theirs, which gave occasion for one of the few poems published during his life by See also:Andre See also:Chenier. But his opinions became more and more See also:radical. He was a member of the See also:Commune of See also:Paris on the loth of See also:August 1792, and was elected See also:deputy for Paris to the See also:Convention, where he was the first to demand the abolition of See also:royalty (on the 21st of See also:September 1792), and he voted the death of 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 XVI. " sans sursis." In the struggle between the See also:Mountain and the See also:Girondists he displayed great See also:energy; and after the coup d'etat of the 31st of May 1793 he made himself conspicuous by his pitiless pursuit of the defeated party. In See also:June he was made See also:president of the Convention; and in September he was admitted to the See also:Committee of Public Safety, on which he was very active. After having entrusted him with several See also:missions, the Convention sent him, on the 3oth of See also:October 1793, to See also:Lyons to punish the revolt of that See also:city. There he introduced the Terror in its most terrible See also:form.
In May 1794 an See also:attempt was made to assassinate See also:Collot; but it only increased his popularity, and this won him the hatred of See also:Robespierre, against whom he took sides on the 9th See also:Thermidor, when he presided over the Convention during a See also:part of the session. During the Thermidorian reaction he was one of the first to be accused of complicity with the fallen See also:leader, but was acquitted. Denounced a second time, he defended himself by See also:pleading that he had acted for the cause of the Revolution, but was condemned with Barere and Billaud-Varenne to transportation to See also:Cayenne (See also:March 1795), where he died See also:early in 1796.
Collot d'Herbois wrote and adapted from the English and See also:Spanish many plays, one of which, Le Paysan magistrat, kept the See also:stage for several years. L'Almanach du Pere Gerard was reprinted under the See also:title of Etrennes aux amis de la Constitution francaise, ou entretiens du Pere Gerard avec ses concitoyens (Paris, 1792).
See F. A. See also:Aulard, See also:Les Orateurs de la Legislative et de la Convention (Paris, 1885–1886), t. ii. pp. 501-512. The See also:principal documents relative to the trial of Collot d'Herbois, Barere and Billaud-Varenne are indicated in Aulard, Recueil See also:des actes du comite de salut public, t. i. pp. 5 and 6.
End of Article: COLLINS, WILLIAM WILKIE (1824–1889)
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