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See also:HENAULT, See also:CHARLES See also:JEAN See also:FRANCOIS (1685-177o) , See also:French historian, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 8th of See also:February 1685. His See also:father, a See also:farmer-See also:general of taxes, was a See also:man of See also:literary tastes, and See also:young Henault obtained a See also:good See also:education at the Jesuit See also:college. Captivated by the eloquence of See also:Massillon, in his fifteenth See also:year he entered the See also:Oratory with the view of becoming a preacher, but after two years' See also:residence he changed his intention, and, inheriting a position which secured him See also:access to the most select society of Paris, he achieved distinction at an See also:early See also:period by hisgay, witty and graceful See also:manners. His literary See also:- TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental
talent, manifested in the See also:composition of various See also:light poetical pieces, an See also:opera, a tragedy (Gametic vestale, 1710), &c., obtained his entrance to the See also:Academy (1723). See also:Petit-maitre as he was, he had also serious capacity, for he became councillor of the See also:parlement of Paris (1705), and in 1710 he was chosen See also:president of the See also:court of enqueetes. After the See also:death of the See also:count de Rieux (son of the famous financier, See also:Samuel See also:Bernard) he became (1753) See also:superintendent of the See also:household of See also:Queen See also:Marie Leszczynska, whose intimate friendship he had previously enjoyed. On his recovery in his eightieth year from a dangerous malady (1765) he professed to have undergone religious See also:conversion and retired into private See also:life, devoting the See also:remainder of his days to study and devotion. His See also:religion was, however, according to the See also:marquis d'See also:Argenson, " exempt from fanaticism, persecution, bitterness and intrigue "; and it did not prevent him from continuing his friendship with See also:Voltaire, to whom it is said he had formerly rendered the service of saving the See also:manuscript of La Henriade, when its author was about to commit it to the flames. The literary See also:work on which Henault bestowed his See also:chief See also:attention was the Abrege chronologique de l'histoire de See also:France, first published in 1744 without the author's name. In the See also:compass of two volumes he comprised the whole See also:history of France from the earliest times to the death 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. The work has no originality. Henault had kept his See also:note-books of the history lectures at the Jesuit college, of which the substance was taken from See also:Mezeray and P. See also:Daniel. He revised them first in 1723, and later put them in the See also:form of question and See also:answer on the See also:model of P. le Ragois, and by following See also:Dubos and See also:Boulainvilliers and with the aid of the See also:abbe Boudot he compiled hisAbrege. The See also:research is all on the See also:surface and is only borrowed. But the work had a prodigious success, and was translated into several See also:languages, even into See also:Chinese. This was due partly to Henault's popularity and position, partly to the agreeable See also:style which made the history readable. He inserted, according to the See also:fashion of the period, moral and See also:political reflections, which are always brief and generally as fresh and pleasing as they are just. A few masterly strokes reproduced the leading features of each See also:age and the characters of its illustrious men; accurate See also:chronological tables set forth the most interesting events in the history of each See also:sovereign and the names of the See also:great men who flourished during his reign; and interspersed throughout the work are occasional chapters on the social and See also:civil See also:state of the See also:country at the See also:close of each era in its history. Continuations of the work have been made at See also:separate periods by Fantin See also:des Odoards, by Anguis with notes by Walckenaer, and by See also:Michaud. He died at Paris on the 24th of See also:November 1770.
End of Article: HENAULT, CHARLES JEAN FRANCOIS (1685-177o)
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