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:ESSEX See also:EDGEWORTH DE FIRMONT (1745-1807)
, last See also:confessor to 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 XVI., was the son of See also:Robert See also:Edgeworth, See also:rector of Edgeworthstown in See also:Ireland, his See also:mother being a See also:grand-daughter of See also:Archbishop Ussher
.
When he was three years old his See also:father became a See also:Roman See also:Catholic, resigned his living and emigrated to See also:Toulouse, where the boy was brought up by the See also:Jesuits
.
In 1769, after his father's See also:death, he went to See also:Paris to be trained for the priesthood
.
On taking orders he assumed the additional surname of de Firmont, from the See also:family See also:estate of Firmount near Edgeworthstown
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Though originally studying with a view to becoming a missionary, he decided to remain in Paris, devoting himself especially to the Irish and See also:English Roman Catholics
.
In 1791 he became confessor to the princess
See also:Elizabeth, See also:sister of Louis XVI., and earned the respect even of the sans-culottes by his courage and devotion
.
By Madame Elizabeth
he was recommended to 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 when his trial was impending; and after Louis' condemnation to death he was able to obtain permission to celebrate See also:mass for him and attend him on the See also:scaffold, where he recommended the king to allow his hands to be tied, with the words: " Sire, in this new See also:outrage I see only the last trait of resemblance between your See also:Majesty and the See also:God who will be your See also:reward." It is said that at the moment of the See also:execution, the confessor uttered the celebrated words: " Son of St Louis, ascend to See also:heaven." But it is certain that the phrase was never spoken
.
The See also:abbe himself does not quote it, either in his See also:memoirs or in a See also:letter written in 1796 to his See also:brother, in which he describes the death of the king
.
Moreover, Edgeworth declared to several persons who asked him about it, that the words were not his
.
In spite of the danger he now ran, Edgeworth refused to leave See also:France so See also:long as he could be of any service to Madame Elizabeth, with whom he
still managed to correspond
.
At length, in 1795, his mother having meanwhile died in See also:prison, where his sister was also
confined, he succeeded in escaping to See also:England, carrying with him Elizabeth's last See also:message to her brother, the future King CharlesX. whom he found in See also:Edinburgh
.
He afterwards went with some papers to See also:Monsieur (Louis XVIII.) at See also:Blankenburg in See also:Brunswick, by whom he was induced to accompany him to Mittau, where,
on the 22nd of May 1807, he died of a See also:fever contracted while attending some See also:French prisoners
.
Edgeworth's Memories, edited by C
.
S
.
Edgeworth, were first published in English (See also:London, 1815), and a French See also:translation (really the letters and some See also:miscellaneous notes, &c.) was published in Paris in 1816
.
A translation of the Lettres de l' abbe Edgeworth avec See also:des memoires sur sa See also:vie was published by Madame Elizabeth de See also:Bow in Paris in 1818, and Letters from the Abbe Edgeworth to his See also:Friends, with Memoirs of his See also:Life, edited by T
.
B
.
England, in London in 1818
.
See J
.
B
.
A
.
Hanet-Clery, See also:Journal de ce qui s'est passe, &c
.
(Paris, 1825); A
.
H. du D. de Beauchesne, Vie de Madame Elisabeth (Paris, 1869); J
.
C
.
D. de See also:Lacretelle, Precis historique de la Revolution francaise (Paris, 1801-1806)
.
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