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See also:DAMIENS, See also:ROBERT See also:FRANCOIS (1715-1757) , a Frenchman who attained notoriety by his attack on 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 XV. of See also:France in 1757, was See also:born in a See also:village near See also:Arras in 1715, and See also:early enlisted in the See also:army. After his See also:discharge, he became a See also:menial in the See also:college of the See also:Jesuits in See also:Paris, and was dismissed from this as well as from other employments for misconduct, his conduct earning for him the name of Robert le Diable. During the disputes of See also:Clement XI. with the See also:parlement of Paris the mind of Damiens seems to have been excited by the ecclesiastical disorganization which followed the refusal of the See also:clergy to See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
grant the sacraments to the Jansenists and Convulsionnaires; and he appears to have thought that See also:peace would be restored by the See also:death of the 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. He, however, asserted, perhaps with truth, that he only intended to frighten the king without wounding him severely. On the 5th of See also:January 1757, as the king was entering his See also:carriage, he rushed forward and stabbed him with a See also:knife, inflicting only a slight See also:wound. He made no See also:attempt to See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape, and was at once seized. He was condemned as a See also:regicide, and sentenced to be torn in pieces by horses in the See also:Place de Greve. Before being put to death he was barbarously tortured with red-hot pincers, and molten See also:wax, See also:lead, and boiling oil were poured into his wounds. After his death his See also:house was razed to the ground, his See also:brothers and sisters were ordered to See also:change their names, and his See also:father, wife, and daughter were banished from France.
See Pieces originates et procedures du proces fait a Robert Francois Damiens (Paris, 1757).
End of Article: DAMIENS, ROBERT FRANCOIS (1715-1757)
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