See also:MONTLUC (or See also:MoNLuc), BLAISE DE
LASSARAN-MASSENCOME, SEIGNEUR DE (c
.
1502-1577), See also:marshal of See also:France, was See also:born about 1502, at the See also:family seat near See also:Condom in the See also:modern See also:department of See also:Gers
.
He was the eldest son, and his family was a See also:good one, but, like most gentlemen of See also:Gascony, he had to
See also:trust to his See also:sword
.
He served first as a private See also:archer and See also:man-at-arms in See also:Italy, with See also:Bayard for his See also:captain, fought all through the See also:wars of See also:Francis I., and was knighted on the See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field of Cerisoles (1544), to which victory he had brilliantly contributed as adviser to the See also:young See also:duke of See also:Enghien
.
Having apparently enjoyed no patronage, he was by this 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 a man of See also:middle See also:age
.
Thenceforward, however, his merits were recognized
.
His See also:chief feat was the famous See also:defence of See also:Siena (1555), which he has told so admirably
.
When the religious wars See also:broke out in France, See also:Montluc, a staunch royalist, held Guyenne for 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
.
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 III. made him in 1574 marshal of France, an See also:honour which he had earned by nearly See also:half a See also:century of service and by numerous wounds
.
He died at Estillac near See also:Agen in 1577
.
Montluc's See also:eminence above other soldiers of his See also:day is due to his Commentaires de Messire Blaise de Montluc (See also:Bordeaux, 1592), in which he described his fifty years of service (1521—1574)
.
This See also:book, the " soldier's See also:Bible " (or " See also:breviary," according to others), as Henry IV. called it, is one of the most admirable of the many admirable books of See also:memoirs produced by the unlearned gentry of France at that time
..
It is said to have been dictated, which may possibly See also:account in some degree for the singular vivacity and picturesqueness of the See also:style
.
The Commentaires are to be found conveniently in the collection of See also:Michaud and Poujoulat, but the See also:standard edition is that of the Societe de l'histoire de France, ed. by M. de See also:Ruble (5 vols., 1865-1872)
.
See See also:Rustow, Militarische Biographien, v. i
.
(See also:Zurich, 1858)
.
MONTLUcON, a See also:town of central France, See also:capital of an See also:arrondissement, and the most important See also:industrial centre in the department of See also:Allier
.
Pop
.
(1906), 31,888
.
It is situated on the See also:Cher, 5o m
.
S.W. of See also:Moulins by the 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 railway
.
The upper town, on an eminence on the right See also:bank, consists of steep, narrow, winding streets, and preserves several buildings of the 15th and 16th centuries; the See also:lower town, traversed by the Cher, is the seat of the See also:industries, which embrace the manufacture of See also:glass, chemicals, mirrors, sewing-See also:machines, and See also:iron and See also:steel See also:production
.
The See also:Commentry See also:coal-mines and Neris, a town with thermal springs, are a few See also:miles distant to the See also:south-See also:east
.
Of the churches, Notre-See also:Dame is of the 15th century, St See also:Pierre partly of the 12th and St See also:Paul modern
.
The town-See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall, with a library, occupies the site of an old Ursuline See also:convent, and two other convents are used as See also:college and See also:hospital
.
Overlooking the town is the See also:castle rebuilt by 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 II., duke of See also:Bourbon, and taken by Henry IV. during the religious wars; it serves as a See also:barracks
.
Montlucon is the seat of a sub-See also:prefect and has tribunals of first instance and of See also:commerce, a See also:board of See also:trade See also:arbitration, a chamber of commerce and a lycee
.
The town, which formed See also:part of the duchy of Bourbon, was taken by the See also:English in 1171, and 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 See also:Augustus in 1181; the English were beaten under its walls in the 14th century
.
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