See also:

• CLAUDE, JEAN (1619-1687)

CLAUDE See also:

• JOSEPH
• JOSEPH, COMTE DE (1785-1870)
• JOSEPH, FATHER (FRANCOIS LECLERC DU TREMBLAY) (1577-1638)

JOSEPH See also:

• CLAUDE JOSEPH DORAT (1734-1780)

DORAT (1734-1780)  , See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man of letters, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris on the 31st of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1734 . He belonged to a See also:

• FAMILY

family whose members had for generations been lawyers, and he entered the See also:

• CORPS (pronounced as in French, from which it is taken, being a late spelling of tors, from Lat. corpus, a body; cf. " corpse ")

corps of the 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's musketeers . He obtained a See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• VOGUE, EUGENE MELCHIOR, COMTE DE (1848- )

vogue by his Reponse d'Abailard a Heloise, and followed up this first success with a number of heroic epistles, See also:

• LES

Les Victimes de l'amour, ou lettres de quelques amants celebres (1776) . See also:

• DORAT, CLAUDE JOSEPH (1734-1780)

Dorat was possessed by an ambition quite out of proportion to his very mediocre ability . Besides See also:

• LIGHT

light See also:

• VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse he wrote comedies, fables and, among other novels, Les Sacrifices de l'amour, ou lettres de la vicomtesse de Senanges et du See also:

• CHEVALIER, ALBERT (1861– )
• CHEVALIER, MICHEL (1806-1879)
• CHEVALIER, ULYSSE (1841– )

chevalier de Versenay (1771) . He tried to See also:

• COVER (from the Fr. convert, from couvrir, to cover, Lat. cooperire)

cover his failures as a dramatist by buying up a great number of seats, and his books were lavishly illustrated by See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good artists and expensively produced, to secure their success . He was maladroit enough to draw down on himself the hatred both of the philosophe party and of their See also:

• ARCH
• ARCH, JOSEPH (1826– )

arch-enemy See also:

• CHARLES
• CHARLES (1270-1325)
• CHARLES (1421-1461)
• CHARLES (1525-1574)
• CHARLES (c. 1319-1364)
• CHARLES (Fr. Charles; Span. Carlos; Ital. Carlo; Ger. Karl; derived from O.H.G. Charal,latinized as Carolus, meaning originally " man ": cf. Mod.Ger., Kerl," fellow," A.S. ceorl, Mod. Eng. " churl ")
• CHARLES (KARL EITEL ZEPHYRIN LUDWIG; in Rum. CAROL)
• CHARLES [KARL ALEXANDER] (1712-1780)
• CHARLES, ELIZABETH (1828-1896)
• CHARLES, JACQUES ALEXANDRE CESAR (1746-1823)
• CHARLES, THOMAS (1755-1814)

Charles Palissot, and thus cut himself off from the possibility of See also:

• ACADEMIC

academic honours . Le Tartufe litteraire (1777) attacked La Harpe and Palissot, and at the same 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 D'See also:

• ALEMBERT, JEAN LE ROND

Alembert and Mlle de See also:

• LESPINASSE, JEANNE JULIE ELEONORE DE (1732-1776)

Lespinasse . Dorat died on the 29th of See also:

• APRIL

April 178o in Paris . See G . Desnoireterres, Le Chevalier Dorat et les pokes le'See also:

• GERS

gers au X VIII' siecle (1887) . For the See also:

• BIBLIOGRAPHICAL

bibliographical value of his See also:

• WORKS

works, see 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 See also:

• COHEN (Hebrew for " priest ")

Cohen, See also:

• GUIDE (in Mid. Eng. gyde, from the Fr. guide; the earlier French form was guie, English " guy," the d was due to the Italian form guida; the ultimate origin is probably Teutonic, the word being connected with the base seen in O. Eng. witan, to know)

Guide de l'See also:

• AMATEUR (Lat. amator, lover)

amateur de livres a figures et a vignettes du X VIII sit cle (See also:

• EDITIONS

editions of Ch .

Mehl, 1876, and R . See also:

• PORTALIS, JEAN ETIENNE MARIE (1746-1807)

Portalis, 1887) .