See also:SEMOIS (also spelt SEMOY and SEnzoYS)
, a See also:river of less than 12o m. in length rising near See also:Arlon in See also:Belgium, and flowing into the See also:Meuse near Montherme in See also:France
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It is Belgian for about oo m. and See also:French for the See also:remainder, entering France a See also:short distance See also:west of the See also:village of Bohan
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It passes through the most picturesque scenery in Belgium and is remarkable for its sinuous course, its length of 120 M. representing only 47 in a straight See also:line
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See also:Bouillon is the only See also:town on its See also:banks, and since it is not navigable it has escaped the contamination of manufacturing See also:life; its valley remains an ideal specimen of sylvan scenery and See also:medieval tranquillity
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S ' MONVILLE, See also:CHARLES 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 HUGUET, See also:MARQUIS DE (1759-1839), French diplomat, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 9th of See also:March 1759, the son of one of the royal secretaries
.
See also:Minister and See also:envoy extraordinary of France at See also:Genoa in 1790-1791, he was instructed by See also:Dumouriez to go to See also:Turin to detach See also:Victor Amadeo III. of See also:Sardinia from the See also:Austrian See also:alliance, but was not permitted to See also:cross the Sardinian frontier
.
In 1793 he had started with H
.
B
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See also:Maret (afterwards duc de See also:Bassano) for See also:Italy where they had See also:missions to See also:Florence and See also:Naples respectively, when the two envoys were kidnapped by Austrian orders in the Valtelline
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They remained in a Tirolese See also:prison until See also:December 1795, when there was an See also:exchange of prisoners on the See also:release of Madame Royale, daughter of Louis XVI., from the See also:Temple
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In 1799 See also:Bonaparte, through whose See also:influence his release had been obtained, sent him to the See also:Hague to consolidate the alliance between France and the Batavian See also:Republic
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In this See also:mission he was entirely successful, and he is credited with another See also:diplomatic success in the inception of the Austrian See also:marriage
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He accepted the Restoration and sat on the See also:commission which See also:drew See also:tin the See also:charter
.
Semonville, who enjoyed a See also:great measure of Louis XVIII.'s confidence, took no See also:part in the See also:Hundred Days
.
A See also:frank opponent of the extremist policy of Charles X., he tried to See also:save him in 1830; in See also:company with See also:Antoine d'Argout he visited the Tuileries and persuaded 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 to withdraw the ordinances and to summon the See also:Council
.
He had been made a See also:count of the See also:Empire in 18o8, and marquis in 1819
.
He died in Paris on the 11th of See also:August 1839
.
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