JOSE FRANCISCO See also:CORREA DA SERRA (1750-1823)
, Portuguese politician and See also:man of See also:science, was See also:born at Serpa, in See also:Alemtejo, in 1750
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Educated at See also:Rome, he took orders under the See also:protection of the See also:duke of Alafoes, See also:uncle of See also:Mary I. of See also:Portugal
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In 1777 he returned to See also:Lisbon, where he resided with his See also:patron, with whose assistance he founded the Portuguese See also:Academy of Sciences
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Of this institution he was named perpetual secretary, and he received the See also:privilege of See also:publishing its trans-actions without reference to any See also:censor whatever
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His use of this right brought him into conflict with the See also:Holy 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; and
2 Nothing caused more offence to Liberal sentiment in See also:France after the Restoration than the spectacle of 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 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 XVIII. walking and carrying a See also:candle in the procession through the streets of See also:Paris
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consequently in 1786 he fled to France, and remained there till the See also:death of Pedro III., when he again took up his See also:residence with Alafoes
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But having given a lodging in the See also:palace to a See also:French Girondist, he was forced to flee to See also:England, where he found a See also:protector in See also:Sir See also:Joseph See also:Banks, and became a member of the Royal Society
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In 1797 he was appointed secretary to the Portuguese See also:embassy, but a See also:quarrel with the See also:ambassador drove him once more to Paris (18o2), and in that See also:city he resided till 1813, when he crossed over to New See also:York
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In 1816 he was made Portuguese See also:minister-plenipotentiary at See also:Washington, and in 182o he was recalled See also:home, appointed a member of the See also:financial See also:council, and elected to a seat in the See also:Cortes
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Three years after, and in the same See also:year with the fall of the constitutional See also:government, he died
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See also:Correa da Serra ranks high as a botanist, though he published no See also:great See also:special See also:work
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His See also:principal claim to renown is the Colec4ao de livros ineditos da historia Per/ugueza, (4 vols., 179o-1816), an invaluable selection of documents, exceedingly well edited
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