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See also:DUCLOS, See also:CHARLES PINOT (1704–1772) , See also:French author, was See also:born at See also:Dinan, in See also:Brittany, in 1704. At an See also:early See also:age he was sent to study at See also:Paris. After some 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 spent in dissipation he began to cultivate the society of the wits of the time, and became a member of the See also:club or association of See also:young men who published their See also:joint efforts in See also:light literature under the titles of Recueilde See also:ces messieurs, Etrennes de la St-See also:Jean, CEufs de Pdques, &c. His See also:romance of Acajou and Zirphile, composed to suit a See also:series of plates which had been engraved for another See also:work, was one of the fruits of this association, and was produced in consequence of a sort of See also:wager amongst its members. Duclos had previously written two other romances, which were more favour-ably received—The Baroness de Luz (1741), and the Confessions of the See also:Count de*** (1747). His first serious publication was the See also:History 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 XI., which is dry and epigrammatical in See also:style, but displays considerable See also:powers of See also:research and impartiality. The reputation of Duclos as an author was confirmed by the publication of his Considerations sur See also:les mceurs de ce siecle (1751), a work justly praised by Laharpe, as containing a See also:great See also:deal of See also:sound and ingenious reflection. It was translated into See also:English and See also:German. The Memoires pour servir d l'histoire du dixhuitieme siecle, intended by the author as a sort of sequel to the preceding work, are much inferior in style and See also:matter, and are, in reality, little better than a See also:kind of romance. In consequence of his History of Louis XI., he was appointed historiographer of See also:France, when that See also:place became vacant on See also:Voltaire's retirement to See also:Prussia. His See also:Secret See also:Memoirs of the Reigns of Louis XI V. and Louis X V. (for which he was able to utilize the Memoires of See also:Saint See also:Simon, suppressed in 1755), were not published until after the Revolution.
Duclos became a member of the See also:Academy of See also:Inscriptions in 1739, and of the French Academy in 1747, being appointed perpetual secretary in 1747. Both See also:academies were indebted to him not only for many valuable contributions, but also for several useful' regulations and improvements. As a member of the
Academy of Inscriptions, he composed several memoirs on trial by combat, on the origin and revolutions of the See also:Celtic and French See also:languages, and on scenic representations and the See also:ancient See also:drama. As a member of the French Academy, he assisted in compiling the new edition of the See also:Dictionary, which was published in 1762; and he made some just and philosophical remarks on the See also:Port Royal See also:Grammar. On several occasions he distinguished himself by vindicating the See also:honour and prerogatives of the See also:societies to which he belonged, and the dignity of the See also:literary See also:character in See also:general. He used to say of himself, " I shall leave behind me a name dear to literary men." The citizens of Dinan, whose interests he always supported with zeal, appointed him See also:mayor of their See also:town in 1744, though he was See also:resident at Paris, and in this capacity he took See also:part in the See also:assembly of the estates of Brittany. Upon the requisition of this See also:body 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 granted him letters of See also:nobility. In 1763 he was advised to retire from France for some time, having rendered himself See also:obnoxious to the See also:government by the opinions he had expressed on the dispute between the duc d'See also:Aiguillon and M. de la Chalotais, the friend and countryman of Duclos. Accordingly he set out first for See also:England (1763), then for See also:Italy (1766); and on his return he wrote his Considerations on Italy. He died at Paris on the 26th of See also:March 1772. The character of Duclos was singular in its See also:union of impulsiveness and prudence. See also:Rousseau described him very laconically as a See also:man See also:droit et adroit. In his See also:manners he displayed a sort of bluntness in society, which frequently rendered him disagreeable; and his See also:caustic wit on many occasions created enemies. To those who knew him, however, he was a pleasant See also:companion. A considerable number of his bons mots have been preserved by his biographers.
A See also:complete edition of the See also:works of Duclos, including an unfinished autobiography, was published by See also:Auger (1821). See also Saint-Beuve, Causeries du lundi, t. ix.; Rene Kerviler, La Bretagne et l'Academie francaise du X Ville siecle (1889); L. Mandon, De la valeur historique See also:des memoires secrets de Duclos (1872).
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