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See also:GOURVILLE, See also:JEAN HERAULD (1625–1703) , See also:French adventurer, was See also:born at La Rochefoucauld. At the See also:age of eighteen he entered the See also:house of La Rochefoucauld as a servant, and in 1646 became secretary to See also:Francois de la Rochefoucauld, author of the See also:Maxima. Resourceful and See also:quick-witted, he rendered services to his See also:master during the See also:Fronde, in his intrigues with the See also:parliament, the See also:court or the princes. In these negotiations he made the acquaintance of See also:Conde, whom he wished to help 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 from the See also:chateau of See also:Vincennes; of See also:Mazarin, for whom he negotiated the reconciliation with the princes; and of See also:Nicolas See also:Fouquet. After the Fronde he engaged in See also:financial affairs, thanks to Fouquet. In 1658 he farmed the See also:taille in See also:Guienne. He bought depreciated rentes and had them raised to their nominal value by the See also:treasury; he extorted gifts from the financiers for his See also:protection, being Fouquet's confidant in many operations of which he shared the profits. In three years he accumulated an enormous See also:fortune, still further increased by his unfailing See also:good fortune at See also:cards, playing even with 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 was involved in the trial of Fouquet, and in See also:April 1663 was condemned to See also:death for peculation and See also:embezzlement of public funds; but escaping, was executed in effigy. He sent a See also:valet one See also:night to take the effigy down from the gallows in the court of the Palais de See also:Justice, and then fled the See also:country. He remained five years abroad, being excepted in 1665 from the See also:amnesty accorded by 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. to the condemned financiers. Having returned secretly to See also:France, he entered the service of Conde, who, unable to meet his creditors, had need of a See also:clever manager to put his affairs in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order. In this way he was able to reappear at court, to assist at the See also:campaigns of the See also:war with See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland, and to offer himself for all the delicate negotiations
for his master or the king. He received See also:diplomatic See also:missions in See also:Germany, in Holland, and especially in See also:Spain, though it was only in 1694, that he was freed from the condemnation pronounced against him by the chamber of justice. From 1696 he See also:fell See also:ill and withdrew to his See also:estate, where he dictated to his secretary, in four months and a See also:half, his Memoires, an important source for the See also:history of his 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 spite of several errors, introduced purposely, they give a clear See also:idea of the See also:life and morals of a financier of the age of Fouquet, and throw See also:light on certain points of the diplomatic history. They were first published in 1724.
There is a See also:modern edition, with notes, an introduction and appendix, by Lecestre (See also:Paris, 1894-1895, 2 vols.).
End of Article: GOURVILLE, JEAN HERAULD (1625–1703)
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