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See also:LEBRUN, See also:PONCE See also:DENIS ECOUCHARD (1729-1807) , See also:French lyric poet, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 11th of See also:August 1729, in the See also:house of the See also:prince de See also:Conti, to whom his See also:father was See also:valet. See also:Young Lebrun had among his schoolfellows a son 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 See also:Racine whose See also:disciple he became. In 1755 he published an See also:Ode sur See also:les desastres de See also:Lisbon. In 1759 he married See also:Marie See also:Anne de Surcourt, addressed in his Elegies as Fanny. To the See also:early years of his See also:marriage belongs his poem Nature. His wife suffered much from his violent See also:temper, and when in 1774 she brought an See also:action against him to obtain a separation, she was supported by Lebrun's own See also:mother and See also:sister. He had been secretaire See also:des commandments to the prince de Conti, and on his See also:patron's See also:death was deprived of his occupation. He suffered a further misfortune in the loss of his See also:capital by the See also:bankruptcy of the prince de Guemene. To this See also:period belongs a See also:long poem, the Veillees des See also:Muses, which remained unfinished, and his ode to See also:Buffon, which ranks among his best See also:works. Dependent on See also:government See also:pensions he changed his politics with the times. See also:Calonne he compared to the See also:great See also:Sully, and Louis XVI. to 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., but the Terror nevertheless found in him its See also:official poet. He occupied rooms in the Louvre, and fulfilled his obligations by shameless attacks on the unfortunate 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:queen. His excellent ode on the Vengeur and the Ode nationals contre Angleterre on the occasion of the projected invasion of See also:England are in See also:honour of the See also:power of See also:Napoleon. This " versatility " has so much injured Lebrun's reputation that it is difficult to appreciate his real merit. He had a See also:genius for See also:epigram, and the quatrains and dizaines directed against his many enemies have a verve generally lacking in his odes. The one directed against La Harpe is called by Sainte-Beuve the " queen of epigrams." La Harpe has said that the poet, called by his See also:friends, perhaps with a spice of See also:irony, Lebrun-Pindare, had written many See also:fine strophes but not one See also:good ode. The critic exposed mercilessly the obscurities and unlucky images which occur even in the ode to Buffon, and advised the author to imitate the simplicity and See also:energy that adorned Buffon's See also:prose. Lebrun died in Paris on the 31st of August 1807.
His works were published by his friend P. L. Ginguene in 1811. The best of them are included in Prosper Poitevin's " Petits poetes See also:francais," which forms See also:part of the " See also:Pantheon litteraire."
LE CARON, See also:HENRI (whose real name was 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 See also:MILLER See also:BEACH) (1841–1894), See also:British See also:secret service See also:agent, was born at See also:Colchester, on the 26th of See also:September 1841. He was of an adventurous See also:character, and when nineteen years old went to Paris, where he found employment in business connected with See also:America. Infected with the excitement of the See also:American See also:Civil See also:War, he crossed the See also:Atlantic in 1861 and enlisted in the See also:Northern See also:army, taking the name of Henri Le Caron. In 1864 he married a young See also:lady who had helped him 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 some Confederate marauders; and by the end of the war he See also:rose to be See also:major. In 1865, through a See also:companion in arms named O'See also:Neill, he was brought into contact with Fenianism, and having learnt of the Fenian See also:plot against See also:Canada, he mentioned the designs when See also:writing See also:home to his father. Mr Beach told his See also:local M.P., who in turn told the Home Secretary, and the latter asked Mr Beach to arrange for further See also:information. Le Caron, inspired (as all the See also:evidence shows) by genuinely patriotic feeling, from that
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 till 1889 acted for the British government as a paid military See also:spy. He was a proficient in See also:medicine, among other qualifications for this See also:post, and he remained for years on intimate terms with the most extreme men in the Fenian organization under all its forms. His services enabled the British government to take See also:measures which led to the fiasco of the See also:Canadian invasion of 1870 and See also:Riel's surrender in 1871, and he supplied full details concerning the various Irish-American associations, in which he himself was a prominent member. He was in the secrets of the " new departure " in 1879-1881, and in the latter See also:year had an interview with See also:Parnell at the House of See also:Commons, when the Irish See also:leader spoke sympathetically of an armed revolution in See also:Ireland. For twenty-five years he lived at See also:Detroit and other places in America, paying occasional visits to See also:Europe, and all the time carrying his See also:life in his See also:hand. The Parnell See also:Commission of 1889 put an end to this. Le Caron was subpoenaed by The Times, and in the See also:witness-See also:box the whole See also:story came out, all the efforts of See also:Sir See also:Charles See also:- RUSSELL (FAMILY)
- RUSSELL, ISRAEL COOK (1852- )
- RUSSELL, JOHN (1745-1806)
- RUSSELL, JOHN (d. 1494)
- RUSSELL, JOHN RUSSELL, 1ST EARL (1792-1878)
- RUSSELL, JOHN SCOTT (1808–1882)
- RUSSELL, LORD WILLIAM (1639–1683)
- RUSSELL, SIR WILLIAM HOWARD
- RUSSELL, THOMAS (1762-1788)
- RUSSELL, WILLIAM CLARK (1844– )
Russell in See also:cross-examination failing to shake his testimony, or to impair the impression of See also:iron tenacity and See also:absolute truthfulness which his bearing conveyed. His career, however, for good or evil, was at an end. He published the story of his life, Twenty-five Years in the Secret Service, and it had an immense circulation. But he had to be constantly guarded, his acquaintances were hampered from seeing him, and he was the victim of a painful disease, of which he died on the 1st of See also:April 1894. The See also:report of the Parnell Commission is his See also:monument.
LE CATEAU, or CATEAU-CAMBRESIS, a See also:town of northern See also:France, in the See also:department of See also:Nord, on the Selle, 15 M. E.S.E. of See also:Cambrai by road. Pop. (1906) 10,400. A 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 the early 17th See also:century and a town-See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall in the See also:Renaissance See also:style are its See also:chief buildings. Its institutions include a See also:board of See also:trade-See also:arbitration and a communal See also:college, and its most important See also:industries are See also:wool-See also:spinning and See also:weaving. Formed by the See also:union of the two villages of Peronne and Vendelgies, under the See also:protection of a See also:castle built by the See also:bishop of Cambrai, Le Cateau became the seat of an See also:abbey in the 11th century. In the 15th it was frequently taken and retaken, and in 1556 it was burned by the French, who in 1559 signed a celebrated treaty with See also:Spain in the town. It was finally ceded to France by the See also:peace of See also:Nijmwegen in 1678.
End of Article: LEBRUN, PONCE DENIS ECOUCHARD (1729-1807)
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