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See also:FAUCHET, See also:CLAUDE (1744-1793) , See also:French revolutionary See also:bishop, was See also:born at Dornes (See also:Nievre) on the 22nd of See also:September 1744. He was a See also:curate of the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of St See also:Roch, See also:Paris, when he was engaged as See also:tutor to the See also:children of the See also:marquis of See also:Choiseul, See also:brother 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 XV.'s See also:minister, an See also:appointment which proved to be the first step to See also:fortune. He was successively See also:grand See also:vicar to the See also:archbishop of See also:Bourges, preacher to 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, and See also:- ABBOT (from the Hebrew ab, a father, through the Syriac abba, Lat. abbas, gen. abbatis, O.E. abbad, fr. late Lat. form abbad-em changed in 13th century under influence of the Lat. form to abbat, used alternatively till the end of the 17th century; Ger. Ab
- ABBOT, EZRA (1819-1884)
- ABBOT, GEORGE (1603-1648)
- ABBOT, ROBERT (1588?–1662?)
- ABBOT, WILLIAM (1798-1843)
abbot of See also:Montfort-Lacarre. The " philosophic " See also:tone of his sermons caused his dismissal from See also:court in 1788 before he became a popular See also:speaker in the Parisian sections. He was one of the leaders of the attack on the See also:Bastille, and on the 5th of See also:August 1789 he delivered an eloquent discourse by way of funeral See also:sermon'for the citizens slain on the 14th of See also:July, taking as his See also:text the words of St See also:Paul, " Ye have been called to See also:liberty." He blessed the tricolour See also:flag for the See also:National Guard, and in September was elected to the See also:Commune, from which he retired in See also:October 1790. During the next See also:winter he organized within the Palais Royal the " Social See also:Club of the Society of the See also:Friends of Truth," presiding over crowded meetings under the self-assumed See also:title of procureur See also:general de la verite. Nevertheless, events were marching faster than his opinions, and the last occasion on which he carried his public with him was in a sermon preached at Notre See also:Dame on the 14th of See also:February 1791. In May he became constitutional bishop of See also:Calvados, and was presently returned by the See also:department to the Legislative See also:Assembly, and afterwards to the See also:Convention. At the king's trial he voted for the See also:appeal to the See also:people and for the See also:penalty of imprisonment. He protested against the See also:execution of Louis XVI. in the See also:Journal See also:des arnis (See also:January 26, 1793), and next See also:month was denounced to the Convention for prohibiting married priests from the exercise of the priesthood in his See also:diocese. He remained secretary to the Convention until, the See also:accusation of the See also:Girondists in May 1793. In July he was imprisoned on the See also:charge of supporting the federalist See also:movement at See also:Caen, and of complicity with See also:Charlotte See also:Corday, whom he had taken to see a sitting of the Convention on her arrival in Paris. Of the second of these charges he was certainly See also:innocent. With the Girondist deputies he was brought before the revolutionary tribunal on the 3oth of October, and was guillotined on the following See also:day.
See Mernoires . ou Lettees de Claude Fauchet (5th ed., 1793) ; Notes sur Claude Fauchet (Caen, 1842).
End of Article: FAUCHET, CLAUDE (1744-1793)
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