TANNEGUY See also:LEFEBVRE (TANAQUILLUS See also:FABER) (1615-1672)
, See also:French classical See also:scholar, was See also:born at See also:Caen
.
After completing his studies in See also:Paris, he was appointed by See also:Cardinal See also:Richelieu inspector of the See also:printing-See also:press at the Louvre
.
After Richelieu's See also:death he See also:left Paris, joined the Reformed See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church, and in 1651 obtained a professorship at the See also:academy of See also:Saumur, which he filled with See also:great success for nearly twenty years
.
His increasing See also:ill-See also:health and a certain moral laxity (as shown in his See also:judgment on See also:Sappho) led to a See also:quarrel with the See also:consistory. as a result of which he resigned his professorship
.
Several See also:universities were eager to obtain his services, and he had accepted a See also:post offered him by the elector See also:palatine at See also:Heidelberg, when he died suddenly on the 12th of See also:September, 1672
.
One of his See also:children was the famous Madame See also:Dacier
.
See also:Lefebvre, who was by no means a typical student in See also:dress or See also:manners, was a highly cultivated See also:man and a thorough classical scholar
.
He brought out See also:editions of various See also:Greek and Latin authors—See also:Longinus, See also:Anacreon and Sappho, See also:Virgil, See also:Horace, See also:Lucretius and many others
.
Hismost important See also:original See also:works are: See also:Les Vies See also:des pates Grecs (r665); Methode pour commencer les humanites Grecques et Latines (2nd ed., 1731), of which several See also:English adaptations have appeared; Epistolae Criticae (1659)
.
In addition to the Memoires pour
.
. . la See also:vie de Tanneguy Lefebvre, by F
.
Graverol (1686), see the See also:article in the Nouvelle biographie generale, based partly on the MS. registers of the Saumur Academie
.
LEFEBVRE-DESNOETTES, See also:CHARLES, See also:COMTE (1773-1822), French See also:cavalry See also:general, joined the See also:army in 2792 and served with the armies of the See also:North, of the Sambre-and-See also:Meuse and Rhineand-Moselle in the various See also:campaigns of the Revolution
.
Six years later he had become See also:captain and aide-de-See also:camp to General See also:Bonaparte
.
At M1crengo he won further promotion, and at See also:Austerlitz became See also:colonel, serving also in the Prussian campaigns of 1806-1807
.
In 1808 he was made general of See also:brigade and created a See also:count of the See also:Empire
.
Sent with the army into See also:Spain, he conducted the first and unsuccessful See also:siege of See also:Saragossa
.
The battlefield of See also:Tudela showed his talents to better See also:advantage, but towards the end of 1808 he was taken prisoner in the See also:action of Benavente by the See also:British cavalry under See also:Paget (later See also:Lord See also:Uxbridge, and subsequently See also:Marquis of See also:Anglesey)
.
For over two years he remained a prisoner in See also:England, living on See also:parole at See also:Cheltenham
.
In 1811 he escaped, and in the invasion of See also:Russia in 1812 was again at the See also:head of his cavalry
.
In 1813 and 1814 his men distinguished themselves in most of the great battles, especially La Rothiere and Montmirail
.
He joined See also:Napoleon in the See also:Hundred Days and was wounded at See also:Waterloo
.
For his See also:part in these events he was condemned to death, but he escaped to the See also:United States, and spent the next few years farming in See also:Louisiana
.
His frequent appeals 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 XVIII. eventually obtained his permission to return, but the " See also:Albion," the See also:vessel on which he was returning to See also:France, went down off the See also:coast of See also:Ireland with all on See also:board on the 22nd of May 1822
.
LE FEVRE, See also:JEAN (c
.
1395-1468), Burgundian chronicler and seigneur of See also:Saint Remy, is also known as Toison d'or from his See also:long connexion with the See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order of the See also:Golden Fleece
.
Of See also:noble See also:birth, he adopted the profession of arms and with other Burgundians fought in the English ranks at See also:Agincourt
.
In 1430, on the See also:foundation of the order of the Golden Fleece by See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip III. the See also:Good, See also:duke of See also:Burgundy, Le Fevre was appointed its 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 of arms and he soon became a very influential See also:person at the Burgundian See also:court
.
He frequently assisted Philip in conducting negotiations with See also:foreign See also:powers, and he was an arbiter in tournaments and on all questions of See also:chivalry, where his wide knowledge of See also:heraldry was highly useful
.
He died at See also:Bruges on the 16th of See also:June 1468
.
Le Fevre wrote a Chronique, or Histoire de Charles VI., See also:roy de France
.
The greater part of this See also:chronicle is merely a copy of the See also:work of Enguerrand de See also:Monstrelet, but Le Fevre is an original authority for the years between 1428 and 1436 and makes some valuable additions to our knowledge, especially about the chivalry of the Burgundian court
.
He is more concise than Monstrelet, but is equally partial to the See also:dukes of Burgundy
.
The Chronique has been edited by F
.
Morand for the Societe de 1'histoire de France (Paris, 1876)
.
Le Fevre is usually regarded as the author of the Livre des faites'de Jacques de See also:Lalaing
.
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