See also:JEAN See also:ANTOINE See also:ROUCHER (1745-1794)
, See also:French poet, the son of a tailor of See also:Montpellier, was See also:born on the 22nd of See also:February 1745
.
By an See also:epithalamium on 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 XVI. and See also:Marie Antoinette he gained the favour of See also:Turgot, and obtained
a See also:salt-tax collectorship
.
His poem was entitled See also:Les Mois; it appeared in 1779, was praised in MS., damned in See also:print and restored to a just appreciation by the students of literature of the 19th See also:century
.
It has the drawbacks of merely didactic-descriptive See also:poetry on the See also:great See also:scale, but occasionally displays much See also:- GRACE (Fr. grace, Lat. gratia, from grates, beloved, pleasing; formed from the root cra-, Gr. xav-, cf. xaipw, x6p,ua, Xapts)
- GRACE, WILLIAM GILBERT (1848– )
grace and spirit
.
The malicious wit of See also:Rivarol's mot on the See also:ill-success of the poem, " C'est le plus beau naufrage du siecle," is not intelligible unless it is said that one of the most elaborate passages describes a shipwreck
.
See also:Roucher was a See also:disciple of
.
See also:Voltaire, and therefore a friend of the Revolution, but he remained moderate in his opinions
.
He frequently presided over an See also:anti-Jacobin See also:club, and denounced the tyranny of the popular demagogues in supplements published with the See also:Journal de See also:Paris in 1792
.
He was arrested on the 4th of See also:October 1793, and, accused of being the See also:leader of a See also:conspiracy among the prisoners at See also:Saint Lazare, was sent to the See also:guillotine on the same tumbril with his friend See also:Andre See also:Chenier on the 25th of See also:July 1794
.
Roucher translated in 1790 See also:Adam See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
Smith's See also:Wealth of Nations
.
His letters from See also:prison were edited by his son-in-See also:law under the See also:title of Consolations de ma captivite (1797), and his See also:death was made the subject of a tragedy in 1834 by his See also:brother See also:Claude Roucher-Deratte, a voluminous writer
.
See A
.
Guillois, See also:Pendant la terreur, la poete Roucher, 1745–1794 (189o), founded on the poet's papers by one of his descendants
.
ROU$, a dissipated debauchee
.
The word is French, and its See also:original meaning was " broken on the See also:wheel." Breaking on the wheel was a See also:form of See also:execution reserved in See also:France, and some other countries, for crimes of See also:peculiar atrocity
.
A roue, therefore, came by a natural See also:process to be understood to mean a See also:man morally worse than a pendard or gallows-See also:bird, who only deserved See also:hanging for See also:common crimes
.
He was also a leader in wickedness, since the See also:chief of a gang of brigands (for instance) would be broken on the wheel, while his obscure followers were merely hanged
.
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:duke 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, who was See also:regent of France from 1715 to 1723, gave the See also:term the sense of impious and callous debauchee, which it has See also:borne since his 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, by habitually applying it to the very See also:bad male See also:company who amused his privacy and his leisure
.
The See also:locus classicus for the origin of this use of the epithet is in the See also:Memoirs of Saint-See also:Simon (vol. xii. pp
.
441–46, ed
.
See also:Cheruel .and See also:Regnier, Paris, 1873–86)
.
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