See also:PAUL DE See also:RAPIN (1661-1725)
, sieur of Thoyras, See also:French historian, was the son of Jacques de See also:Rapin, avocat at See also:Castres (See also:Tarn), where he was See also:born on the 25th of See also:March 1661
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He was educated at the See also:Protestant See also:academy of See also:Saumur, and in 1679 became an See also:advocate, but soon afterwards entered the See also:army
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The revocation of the See also:Edict of See also:Nantes in 1685, and the See also:death of his See also:father led him to come to See also:England; but, unable to find employment there, he crossed to See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland and enlisted in the See also:company of French See also:volunteers at See also:Utrecht commanded by See also:Daniel de Rapin, his See also:cousin-See also:german
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He accompanied the See also:prince of See also:Orange to England in 1688, and during the Irish See also:campaign he took See also:part in the See also:siege of Carri4fergus and the See also:battle of the See also:Boyne, and was wounded at the battle of See also:Limerick
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Soon afterwards he was promoted See also:captain; but in 1693 he resigned in 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 to become See also:tutor to the See also:earl of See also:Portland's son
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After travelling with his See also:charge, he settled with his See also:family in Holland, first at the See also:Hague, then, for See also:economy's See also:sake, at See also:Wesel, in 1707, where he began his See also:great See also:work, L'Histoire d'Angleterre
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Though he was of a strong constitution, the seventeen years' application ruined his See also:health
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He died in 1725
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Rapin was also the author of a Dissertation sur See also:les Whigs et les Torys (1717)
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L'Histoire d'Angleterre, embracing the See also:period from the invasion of the See also:Romans to the death of See also:Charles I., was printed at the Hague in 1724 in 8 vols
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It was translated into See also:English and improved with notes by See also:Tindal, in 2 vols. See also:folio, 1725-31
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Rapin's See also:history of England was almost the only one available in See also:France in the first See also:half of the 18th See also:century
.
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