See also:FRANCOIS See also:HOTMAN (1524-1590)
, See also:French publicist, eldest son of See also:Pierre See also:Hotman, was See also:born on the 23rd of See also:August 1524, at See also:Paris, his See also:family being of Silesian origin
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His name is latinized by himself Hotomanus, by others Hotomannus and Hottomannus
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His See also:father, a zealous See also:Catholic, and a counsellor of the See also:parlement of Paris, destined him for the See also:law, and sent him at the See also:age of fifteen to the university 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
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He obtained his doctorate in three years, and became a pleader at Paris
.
The arts of the See also:barrister were not to his See also:taste; he turned to the study of See also:jurisprudence and literature, and in 1546 was appointed lecturer in See also:Roman Law at the university of Paris
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The fortitude of See also:Anne Dubourg under See also:torture gained his See also:adhesion to the cause of Reform
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Giving up a career on which he had entered with high repute, he went in 1547 to See also:Lyons, and thence to See also:Geneva and to See also:Lausanne, where, on the recommendation of See also:Calvin, he was appointed See also:professor of belles-lettres and See also:history, and married Claudine Aubelin, a refugee from Orleans
.
On theinvitation of the magistracy, he lectured at See also:Strassburg on law in 1555, and became professor in 1556, superseding See also:Francois Baudouin, who had been his colleague in Paris
.
His fame was such that overtures were made to him by the courts of See also:Prussia and See also:Hesse, and by See also:Elizabeth of See also:England
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Twice he visited See also:Germany, in 1556 accompanying Calvin to the See also:Diet at See also:Frankfort
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He was entrusted with confidential See also:missions from the Huguenot leaders to See also:German potentates, carrying at one 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 See also:credentials from See also:Catherine de See also:Medici
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In 156o he was one of the See also:principal instigators of the See also:conspiracy of See also:Amboise; in See also:September of that See also:year he was with See also:Antoine of See also:Navarre at See also:Nerac
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In 1562 he attached himself to See also:Conde
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In 1564 he became professor of See also:civil law at See also:Valence, retrieving by his success the reputation of its university
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In 1567 he succeeded See also:Cujas in the See also:chair of jurisprudence at See also:Bourges
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Five months later his See also:house and library were wrecked by a Catholic See also:mob; he fled by Orleans to Paris, where L'H6pital made him historiographer 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
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As See also:agent for the See also:Huguenots, he was sent to See also:Blois to negotiate the See also:peace of 1568
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He returned to Bourges, only to be again driven away by the outbreak of hostilities
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At See also:Sancerre, during its See also:siege, he composed his Consolatio (published in 1593)
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The peace of 1570 restored him to Bourges, whence a third time he fled, in See also:con-sequence of the St See also:Bartholomew See also:massacre (1572)
.
In 1573, after See also:publishing his Franco-Gallia, he See also:left See also:France for ever with his family, and became professor of Roman law at Geneva
.
On the approach of the See also:duke of See also:Savoy he removed to See also:Basel in 1579
.
In 158o he was appointed councillor of See also:state to 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 of Navarre
.
The See also:plague sent him in 1582 to See also:Montbeliard; here he lost his wife
.
Returning to Geneva in 1584 he See also:developed a See also:kind of scientific turn, dabbling in See also:alchemy and the See also:research for the philosopher's See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone
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In 1589 he made his final retirement to Basel, where he died on the 12th of See also:February 1590, leaving two sons and four daughters; he was buried in the See also:cathedral
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Hotman was a See also:man of pure See also:life, real piety (as his Consolatio shows) and warm domestic virtues
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His See also:constant removals were inspired less by fear for himself than by care for his family, and by a temperament averse to the conditions of warfare, and a constitutional See also:desire for peace
.
He did much for 16th-See also:century jurisprudence, having a See also:critical knowledge of Roman See also:sources, and a See also:fine Latin See also:style
.
He broached the See also:idea of a See also:national See also:code of French law
.
His See also:works were very numerous, beginning with his De gradibus cognationis (1546), and including a See also:treatise on the See also:Eucharist (1566); a treatise (See also:Anti-Tribonien, 1567) to show that French law could not be based on Justinian; a life of See also:Coligny (1575); a polemic (Brulum fulmen, 1585) directed against a See also:bull of See also:Sixtus V., with many other works oh law, history, politics and classical learning
.
His most important See also:work, the Franco-Gallia (1573), was in advance of his age, and found favour neither with Catholics nor with Huguenots in its See also:day; yet its See also:vogue has been compared to that obtained later by See also:Rousseau's Contrat Social
.
It presented an ideal of See also:Protestant statesmanship, See also:pleading for a representative See also:government and an elective See also:monarchy
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It served the purpose of the See also:Jesuits in their pamphlet See also:war against Henry IV
.
See See also:Bayle, Dictionnaire; R
.
Dareste, Essai sur F
.
See also:Holman (185o) ; E
.
See also:Gregoire, in Nouvelle Biog. generale (1858)
.
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