SIEUR DE LA See also:

• RIVIERE, BRITON (1840- )

RIVIERE 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 See also:

• SIEUR DE LA RIVIERE CHARLES DUFRESNY (1648–1724)

DUFRESNY (1648–1724)  , See also:

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

French dramatist, 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 in 1648 . The allegation that his grandfather was an illegitimate son of 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 IV. See also:

• PRO

pro-cured him the liberal patronage 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 XIV., who gave him the See also:

• POST

post of See also:

• VALET (Fr. valet; O. Fr. vaslet)

valet de chambre, and affixed his name to many lucrative privileges . See also:

• DUFRESNY, CHARLES, SIEUR DE LA RIVIERE (1648–1724)

Dufresny's expensive habits neutralized all efforts to enrich him, and as if to furnish a piquant commentary on the See also:

• PROVERB (Lat. proverbium, from pro, forth, publicly, verbum, word; the Greek equivalent is irapolµia, from 7rapa, alongside, and oiµos, way, road, i.e. a wayside saying; Ger. Sprichwort)

proverb that poverty makes us acquainted with See also:

• STRANGE, SIR ROBERT (1721-1792)

strange bedfellows, he married, as his second wife, a washerwoman, in See also:

• DISCHARGE (adapted from the O. Fr. discharge, modern decharge, from a med. Lat. discargare, to unload, dis- and earn care, to load, cf. " charge ")

discharge of her See also:

• BILL

bill—a whimsicality which supplied Le See also:

• SAGE, RUSSELL (1816-1906)

Sage with an See also:

• EPISODE

episode in the Diable boiteux, and was made the subject of a See also:

• COMEDY

comedy by J . M . See also:

• DESCHAMPS, EUSTACHE
• DESCHAMPS, SMILE (1791-1871)

Deschamps (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 See also:

• RIVIERE, BRITON (1840- )

Riviere Dufresny, ou le mariage See also:

• IMPROMPTU (from in promptu, on the spur of the moment)

impromptu) . He died in Paris on the 6th of See also:

• OCTOBER

October r 724 . His plays, destitute for the most See also:

• PART

part of all higher qualities, abound in sprightly wit and pithy sayings . In the six volumes of his Thedtre (Paris, 1731), some of the best are L'Esprit de See also:

• CONTRADICTION, PRINCIPLE OF (principium contradictionis)

contradiction (1700), Le See also:

• DOUBLE
• DOUBLE (from the Mid. Eng. duble, the form which gives the present pronunciation, through the Old Er. duble, from Lat. duplus, twice as much)

Double Veuvage (1701), La Joueuse (1709), La Coquette de See also:

• VILLAGE

village (1715), La Reconciliation normande (1719) and Le Mariage fait et romps (1721) . A See also:

• VOLUME

volume of Poesies diverses, two volumes of Nouvelles historiques (1692), and See also:

• LES

Les Amusements serieux et comiques d'un Siamois (1705), a See also:

• WORK

work to which See also:

• MONTESQUIEU, CHARLES LOUIS DE SECONDAT, BARON DE LA BREDE ET DE (1689-1755)

Montesquieu was indebted for the See also:

• IDEA (Gr. Ibia, connected with i&eiv, to see; cf. Lat. species from specere, to look at)

idea of his Lettres persanes, See also:

• COMPLETE

complete the See also:

• LIST (O.E. lisle, a Teutonic word, cf. Dut. lust, Ger. Leiste, adapted in Ital. lista and Fr. lisle)
• LIST, FRIEDRICH (1789-1846)

list of Dufresny's writings . The best edition of his See also:

• WORKS

works is that of 1747 (4 vols.) . His See also:

• THEATRE (BEarpov, " a place for seeing," from OeacOae)

Theatre was edited (1882) by Georges d'Heylli .