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See also:SILHOUETTE, See also:ETIENNE DE (1709-1767) , controller-See also:general of See also:France, was See also:born at See also:Limoges on the 5th of See also:July 1709. He travelled extensively while still a See also:young See also:man and See also:drew See also:attention to himself by the publication of See also:English See also:translations, See also:historical writings, and studies on the See also:financial See also:system of See also:England. Successively councillor to the See also:parlement of See also:Metz, secretary to the 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, member of the See also:commission on delimitation of Franco-See also:British interests in Acadia (1749), and royal See also:commissioner in the Indies See also:Company, he was named controller-general through the See also:influence of the marquise de See also:Pompadour on the 4th of See also:March 1759. The See also:court at first reposed a See also:blind confidence in him, but soon perceived not only that he was not a financier but also that he was See also:bent on attacking See also:privilege by levying a See also:land-tax on the estates of the nobles and by reducing the See also:pensions. A See also:storm of opposition gathered and See also:broke: a thousand cartoons and jokes were directed against the unfortunate See also:minister who seemed to be resorting to one financial embarrassment in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order 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 another; and in allusion to the sacrifices which he demanded of the nobles, even the See also:conversion of their table See also:plate into See also:money, silhouette became the popular word for a figure reduced to simplest See also:form. The word was eventually (1835) admitted to the See also:dictionary by the See also:French See also:academy. Silhouette was forced out of the See also:ministry on the 21st of See also:November 1759 and withdrew to See also:Brie-sur-See also:Marne, where during the See also:remainder of his See also:life he sought See also:refuge from scorn and See also:sarcasm in religious devotion. He died on the loth of See also:January 1767.
Silhouette See also:left several translations from the English and the See also:Spanish, accounts of travel, and dull historical and philosophical writings, a See also:list of which is given in See also:Querard, France litteraire, ix. 138. A Testament politique, published under his name in 1772, is apochryphal. See J. P. See also:Clement and A. Lemoine, M. de, Silhouette (See also:Paris, 1872).
End of Article: SILHOUETTE, ETIENNE DE (1709-1767)
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