LAMOIGNON  , a See also:

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

French See also:

• FAMILY

family, which takes its name from Lamoignon, a See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place said to have been in its See also:

• POSSESSION
• POSSESSION (Lat. possessio, possidere, to possess)

possession since the 13th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century . One of its several branches is that of Lamoignon de See also:

• MALESHERBES, CHRETIEN GUILLAUME DE LAMOIGNON DE (1721-1794)

Malesherbes . Several of the Lamoignons have played important parts in the See also:

• HISTORY

history of See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France and the family has been specially distinguished in the legal profession . See also:

• GUILLAUME
• GUILLAUME, JEAN BAPTISTE CLAUDE EUGENE (1822-1905)

GUILLAUME DE LAMOIGNON (1617-1677), attained See also:

• EMINENCE (Lat. eminentia)

eminence as a lawyer and became See also:

• PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

president of the See also:

• PARLEMENT (see PARLIAMENT)

parlement of 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 1658 . First on the popular, and later on the royalist See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side during the See also:

• FRONDE, THE

Fronde, he presided at the earlier sittings of the trial of See also:

• FOUQUET (or FOUCQUET), NICOLAS (1615-168o)

Fouquet, whom he regarded as See also:

• INNOCENT (INNOCENTIUS)
• INNOCENT (POPES)

innocent, and he was associated with See also:

• COLBERT, JEAN BAPTISTE (1619-1683)

Colbert, whom he was able more than once to thwart . Lamoignon tried to simplify the See also:

• LAWS

laws of France and sought the society of men of letters like Boileau and See also:

• RACINE
• RACINE, JEAN (1639-1699)
• RACINE, LOUIS (1692-1763)

Racine . Having received See also:

• RICH, BARNABE (c. 1540-1617)
• RICH, CLAUDIUS JAMES (1787-1821)
• RICH, JOHN (1692-1761)
• RICH, PENELOPE, LADY (c. 1562–1607)
• RICH, RICHARD, 1ST BARON RICH (1490?-1567)

rich rewards for his public services, he died in Paris on the loth of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1677 . Guillaume's second son, NICOLASDELAMOIGNON (1648-1724), took the surname of Basville . Following his hereditary calling he filled many public offices, serving as intend-See also:

• ANT
• ANT (O. Eng. aemete, from Teutonic a, privative, and maitan, cut or bite off, i.e. " the biter off "; aemete in Middle English became differentiated in dialect use to (mete, then amte, and so ant, and also to emete, whence the synonym " emmet," now only u

ant of See also:

• MONTAUBAN
• MONTAUBAN, ARTHUR DE (d. 1479)

Montauban, of See also:

• PAU

Pau, of See also:

• POITIERS

Poitiers and of See also:

• LANGUEDOC

Languedoc before his retirement in 1718 . His See also:

• ADMINISTRATION (Lat. administrare, to serve)

administration of Languedoc was chiefly remarkable for vigorous See also:

• MEASURES

measures against the See also:

• CAMISARDS (from camisade, obsolete Fr. for " a night attack," from the Ital. camiciata, formed from camicia—Fr. chemise—a shirt, from the fact of a shirt being worn over the armour in order to distinguish friends from foes)

Camisards and other Protestants, but in other directions his See also:

• WORK

work in the See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

south of France was more beneficent, as, following the example of Colbert, he encouraged See also:

• AGRICULTURE
• AGRICULTURE (from Lat. ages, field, and colere, to cultivate)
• AGRICULTURE, BOARD OF

agriculture and See also:

• INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry generally and did something towards improving the means of communication . He wrote a 111enaoire, which contains much interesting See also:

• INFORMATION (from Lat. informare, to give shape or form to, to represent, describe)

information about his public work . This was published at See also:

• AMSTERDAM
• AMSTERDAM (NEw AMSTERDAM)

Amsterdam in 1724 .

Lamoignon, who is called by See also:

• SAINT (lat. sanctus, " holy ")

Saint See also:

• SIMON, ABRAHAM (1622-1692)
• SIMON, JULES FRANCOIS (1814–1896)
• SIMON, RICHARD (1638–1712)
• SIMON, SIR JOHN (1816–1904)
• SIMON, THOMAS (c. 1623-1665)

Simon, " 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 and See also:

• TYRANT (Gr. r6pavvos, master, ruler)

tyrant of Languedoc," died in Paris on the 17th of May 1724 . CHRETIEN See also:

• FRANCOIS (1558-1614)

FRANCOIS DE LAMOIGNON (1735–1789) entered public See also:

• LIFE

life at an See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age and was an actor in the troubles which heralded the Revolution . First on the side of the parlement and later on that of the king he was one of the assistants of Lomenie de Brienne, whose unpopularity and fall he shared . He committed See also:

• SUICIDE (from Lat. sui, of oneself, and cidium, from cued ere, to kill)

suicide on the 15th of May 1789 .