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See also:ROHAN, 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 RENE EDOUARD, See also:CARDINAL DE (1734-1803) , See also:prince de Rohan-Guemenee, See also:archbishop of See also:Strassburg, a See also:cadet of the See also:great See also:family of Rohan (which traced its origin to the See also:kings of See also:Brittany, and was granted the See also:precedence and See also:rank of a See also:foreign princely family by Louis XIV.), was See also:born at See also:Paris on the 25th of See also:September 1734. Members of the Rohan family had filled the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of archbishop of Strassburg from 17o4—an office which made them princes of the See also:empire and the compeers rather of the See also:German prince-bishops than of the See also:French ecclesiastics. For this high office Louis de Rohan was destined from his See also:birth, and soon after taking orders, in 176o, he was nominated coadjutor to his See also:uncle, See also:Constantine de Rohan-See also:Rochefort, who then held the archbishopric, and he was also consecrated See also:bishop of See also:Canopus. But he preferred the elegant See also:life and the gaiety of Paris to his clerical duties, and had also an ambition to make a figure in politics. He joined the party opposed to the See also:Austrian See also:alliance, which had been cemented by the See also:marriage of the archduchess See also:Marie Antoinette to the dauphin. This party was headed by the duc d'See also:Aiguillon, who in 1771 sent Prince Louis on a See also:special See also:embassy to See also:Vienna to find out what was being done there with regard to the See also:partition of See also:Poland. Rohan arrived at Vienna in See also:January 1772, and made a great See also:noise with his lavish fetes. But the empress Maria See also:Theresa was implacably hostile to him; not only did he See also:attempt to thwart her policy, but he spread scandals about her daughter Marie Antoinette, laughed at herself, and shocked her ideas of propriety by his dissipation and luxury. On the See also:death of Louis XV. in 1774, Rohan was recalled from Vienna, and coldly received at Paris; but the See also:influence of his family was too great for him to be neglected, and in 1777 he was made See also:grand See also:almoner, and in 1778 See also:- ABBOT (from the Hebrew ab, a father, through the Syriac abba, Lat. abbas, gen. abbatis, O.E. abbad, fr. late Lat. form abbad-em changed in 13th century under influence of the Lat. form to abbat, used alternatively till the end of the 17th century; Ger. Ab
- ABBOT, EZRA (1819-1884)
- ABBOT, GEORGE (1603-1648)
- ABBOT, ROBERT (1588?–1662?)
- ABBOT, WILLIAM (1798-1843)
abbot of St Vaast. In 1778 he was made a cardinal on the nomination of See also:Stanislaus See also:Poniatowski, 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 of Poland, and in the following See also:year succeeded his uncle as archbishop of Strassburg and became abbot of Noirmoutiers and See also:Chaise-Dieu. His various preferments brought him in an income of two and a See also:half millions of livres; yet the cardinal was restless and unhappy until he should be reinstated in favour at See also:court and had appeased the animosity which Marie Antoinette See also:felt against him. In pursuit of this See also:object he See also:fell into the hands of a gang of intriguers, the comtesse de Lamotte, the notorious See also:Cagliostro and others, whose actions
See also:form See also:part of the " affair of the See also:diamond necklace." This See also:story is disentangled elsewhere (see DIAMOND NECKLACE), and diverging views are still taken of it. Rohan certainly was led to believe that his attentions to the See also:queen were welcomed, and that his arrangement by which she received the famous necklace was approved. He was the dupe of others, and at the trial in 1786 before the See also:parlement his acquittal was received with universal See also:enthusiasm, and regarded as a victory over the court and the unpopular queen. He was deprived, however, of his office as grand almoner and exiled to his See also:abbey of Chaise-Dieu. He was soon allowed to return to Strassburg, and his popularity was shown by his See also:election in 1789 to the states-See also:general by the See also:clergy of the bailliages of Haguenau and See also:Weissenburg. He at first declined to sit, but the states-general, when it became the See also:national See also:assembly, insisted on validating his election. But as a prince of 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 in January 1791 he refused. to take the See also:oath to the constitution, and went to See also:Ettenheim, in the German part of his See also:diocese. In 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 his See also:character improved, and he spent what See also:wealth remained to him in providing for the poor clergy of his diocese who had been obliged to leave See also:France; and in 18oi he resigned his nominal rank as archbishop of Strassburg. On the 17th of See also:February 1803 he died at Ettenheim.
See the Memoires of his secretary, the See also:abbe Georgel, of the baroness d'Oberkirch, of See also:Beugnot, and of Madame See also:Campan; and See also:works cited under DIAMOND NECKLACE.
End of Article: ROHAN, LOUIS RENE EDOUARD, CARDINAL DE (1734-1803)
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