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See also:MONTRESOR, See also:CLAUDE DE BOURDEILLE, See also:COMTE DE (c. 16o6-1663) , See also:French intriguer and memoir-writer, was the See also:grand-See also:nephew of See also:Pierre de Branteme. He was the second favourite of Gaston, See also:duke of See also:- ORLEANS
- ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
- ORLEANS, DUKES OF
- ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
- ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
- ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
- ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
- ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
- ORLEANS, PHILIP I
- ORLEANS, PHILIP II
Orleans, the weak 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 XIII., succeeding See also:Antoine de Laage, duc de See also:Puylaurens, in this position in 1635. He planned the assassination of See also:Cardinal See also:Richelieu at the See also:camp of See also:Amiens in 1636, a See also:plan which failed through the cowardice of Orleans. Montresor was obliged to spend the next six years on his See also:estate, but in 1642 he entered into the See also:plot of Cinq See also:Mars against Richelieu. On its failure he escaped to See also:England, but his estates were confiscated. Returning after Richelieu's See also:death, he entered into the intrigues of the See also:period just preceding the See also:Fronde, and was imprisoned in the See also:Bastille, then in See also:Vincennes, having risked his safety by coming back from See also:- EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap, consul, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)
exile 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 to aid the duchess of Chevreuse. See also:Mazarin attempted to win him over in vain, but in 1653 he made his submission to the victorious See also:minister, and 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 on played no See also:part in public See also:life. He had three See also:children by Mlle de See also:Guise, with whom he had a lasting liaison.
His Memoires have preserved his name from the oblivion other-See also:wise awaiting such intriguers; they are written with naive frankness and are extremely interesting. They are printed by A. See also:Petitot and Monmerque in Collection See also:des memoires relatifs a l'histoire de See also:France (See also:Paris, 1876).
End of Article: MONTRESOR, CLAUDE DE BOURDEILLE, COMTE DE (c. 16o6-1663)
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