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See also:GRAMONT, PHILIBERT, See also:COMTE DE (1621-1707) , the subject of the famous See also:Memoirs, came of a See also:noble Gaston See also:family, said to have been of Basque origin. His grandmother, Diane d'Andouins, comtesse de Gramont, was " la belle Corisande," one of the mistresses of See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry IV. The See also:grandson assumed that
1 Compare with this See also:Bismarck's remarks to See also:Hohenlohe (Hohenlohe, Denkwii.rdigkeilen, ii. 71): " When Gramont was made See also:minister, Bismarck said to .See also:Benedetti that this indicated that the See also:emperor was meditating something evil, otherwise he would not have made so stupid a See also:person minister. Benedetti replied that the emperor knew too little of him, whereupon Bismarck said that the emperor had once described Gramont to him as ` un ancien bellatre.'
his See also:father See also:Antoine II. de Gramont, See also:viceroy of See also:Navarre, was the son of Henry IV., and regretted that he had not claimed the privileges of royal See also:birth. Philibert de Gramont was the son of Antoine IL by his second See also:marriage with See also:Claude de See also:Montmorency, and was See also:born in 1621, probably at the family seat of Bidache. He was destined for 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, and was educated at the See also:college of See also:Pau, in See also:Beam. He refused the ecclesiastical See also:life, however, and joined the See also:army of See also:Prince See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas of See also:Savoy, •then besieging Trino in See also:Piedmont. He afterwards served under his See also:elder See also:half-See also:brother, Antoine, See also:marshal de Gramont, and the prince of See also:Conde. He was See also:present at See also:Fribourg and See also:Nordlingen, and also served with distinction in See also:Spain and See also:Flanders in 1647 and 1648. He favoured Conde's party at the beginning of the See also:Fronde, but changed sides before he was too severely compromised. In spite of his See also:record in the army he never received any important See also:commission either military or See also:diplomatic, perhaps because of an incurable levity in his outlook. He was, however, made a See also:governor of the Pays d'Aunis and See also:lieutenant of Beam. During the See also:Commonwealth he visited See also:England, and in 1662 he was exiled from See also:Paris for paying See also:court to Mademoiselle de la Motte Houdancourt, one 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's mistresses. He went to See also:London, where he found at the court of See also:Charles II. an See also:atmosphere congenial to his talents for intrigue, gallantry and See also:pleasure. He married in London, under pressure from her two See also:brothers, See also:Elizabeth See also:- HAMILTON
- HAMILTON (GRAND or ASHUANIPI)
- HAMILTON, ALEXANDER (1757-1804)
- HAMILTON, ANTHONY, or ANTOINE (1646-1720)
- HAMILTON, ELIZABETH (1758–1816)
- HAMILTON, EMMA, LADY (c. 1765-1815)
- HAMILTON, JAMES (1769-1831)
- HAMILTON, JAMES HAMILTON, 1ST DUKE OF (1606-1649)
- HAMILTON, JOHN (c. 1511–1571)
- HAMILTON, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
- HAMILTON, PATRICK (1504-1528)
- HAMILTON, ROBERT (1743-1829)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM (1730-1803)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM ROWAN (1805-1865)
- HAMILTON, THOMAS (1789-1842)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM (1704-1754)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM GERARD (1729-1796)
Hamilton, the See also:sister of his future biographer. She was one of the See also:great beauties of the See also:English court, and was, according to her brother's optimistic See also:account, able to See also:fix the See also:count's affections. She was a woman of considerable wit, and held her own at the court 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 XIV., but her See also:husband pursued his gallant exploits to the See also:close of a See also:long life, being, said Ninon de 1'Enclos, the only old See also:man' who could affect the follies of youth without being ridiculous. In 1664 he was allowed to return to See also:France. He revisited England in 1670 in connexion with the See also:sale' of See also:Dunkirk, and again in 1671 and 1676. In 1688 he was sent by Louis XIV. to congratulate See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James II. on the birth. of an See also:heir. From all these small diplomatic See also:missions he succeeded in obtaining considerable profits, being destitute of scruples whenever See also:money was in question. At the See also:age of seventy-five he. had a dangerous illness, during which he became reconciled to the church. His penitence does not seem to have survived his recovery. He was eighty years old when he supplied his brother-in-See also:law, See also:Anthony Hamilton .(q.v.), with the materials for his, Memoires. Hamilton said that they had been dictated to him, but there is no doubt that he was the real author. The account of Gramont's See also:early career was doubtless provided by himself, but Hamilton was probably more See also:familiar with the See also:history of the court of Charles II., which forms the most interesting See also:section of the See also:book. Moreover Gramont, though he had a reputation for wit, was no writer, and there is no See also:reason to suppose that he was capable of producing a See also:work which remains a masterpiece of See also:style and of witty See also:portraiture. When the Memoires were finished it is said that Gramont sold the MS. for 1500 francs; and kept most of the money himself. See also:Fontenelle, then See also:censor of the See also:press, refused to license the book from considerations of respect to the See also:strange old man, whose gambling, See also:cheating and meannesses were so ruthlessly exposed. But Gramont himself appealed to the See also:chancellor and the See also:prohibition was removed. He died on the loth of See also:January 1707, and the Memoires appeared six. years later.
Hamilton was far See also:superior to the comte de Gramont, but he relates the See also:story of his See also:hero without comment, and no condemnation of the prevalent See also:code of morals is allowed to appear, unless in an occasional See also:touch of See also:irony. The portrait. is See also:drawn with such skill that the count, in spite of his biographer's candour, imposes by his See also:grand. See also:air on the reader much as he appears to have done on his contemporaries. The book is the most entertaining of contemporary memoirs, and in no other book is there a description so vivid, truthful, and graceful of the licentious court of Charles II. There are other and less.;flattering accounts of the' count. His scandalous See also:tongue knew no See also:restraint, and he was a privileged person who was allowed to See also:state even the most unpleasing truths to Louis XIV. See also:Saint-See also:Simon in his memoirs333
describes the See also:relief that was See also:felt at court when the old man's See also:death was announced.
Memoires de la See also:vie du comte de See also:Grammont contenant particulierement l'histoire amoureuse de la cour d'Angleterre sous le regne de Charles II was printed in 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 with the inscription Cplogne, 1713. Other See also:editions followed in 1715 and 1716. Memoirs of the Life of Count de Grammont ... translated out of the See also:French' by Mr [ See also:Abel ] See also:Boyer (1714), was supplemented by a " compleat See also:key " in 1719. ' The Memoires " augmentees de notes et d'eclaircissemens " was edited by See also:Horace See also:Walpole in 1772. In 1793 appeared in London an edition adorned with portraits engraved after originals in the royal collection. An English edition by See also:Sir See also:Walter See also:Scott was published by H. G. See also:Bohn (1846), and this with additions was reprinted in 1889, 1890, 1896, &c. Among other See also:modern editions are an excellent one in the Bsblietheque See also:Charpentier edited by M. Gustave See also:Brunet (1859) ; Memoires . (Paris, 1888) with etchings by L. Boisson after C. Delort and an introduction by H. Gausseron; Memoirs'
(1889), edited by. Mr H. See also:Vizetelly;and Memoirs . . . (1903), edited by Mr See also:Gordon See also:Goodwin.
End of Article: GRAMONT, PHILIBERT, COMTE DE (1621-1707)
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