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vince of Berry. He entered into the fociety of Jefuits in 
1659, became a very popular preacher, but was particularly 
famous for his hiftorical com gic in which he a iduoufly 
is ofthe for a Jefuit S write with a proper tee 3 and 
that of father d’Orleans may be judged ie from his calling 
on which the royal Sree ee 18 
{plit, and the fource of a the contention which have finc 
a view o 
if his narrative im 
onfi 
Revalutions d’Efpagne.’ “The ce of eal other of his 
works are given in the General Biog. 
RLEANS, Lewis, Due de, firft prince cf the blood in 
France, was fon of Philip, ‘duke of Orleans, afterwards 
regent of the kingdom, and born at ire in the year 
eat him to renounce the world, 
and to deci himfelf wholly to devotional exercifes, and the 
In the year 1730 he 
St. Genevieve, in which 
da 
and at the fame time applied anc with ta diligence and 
fuccefs to his literary and {cientific ft making himfelf 
ebrew, Cha Idee, a, and Greek lan- 
ecame well acquainted with the writings 
, ecclefiaftical hiftorians, and fathers. 
He was likewife extremely well verfed in general hiftory, 
geography, botany, chemiftry, natural ree natural phi 
lofophy, and the art of painting. He fell a facrifice to t 
and to the feventy of the difcipline 
en he 
by him to the ; 
sa ae nee died in 1785, at the age of 60. Moreri. 
nite Louts Josern, Duke of, was born at 
thing that was bad: cowar 
reckoned, of all others, the fouleft ftain that can attach to 
it. After this, however, he was raifed to a ftill higher rank 
in the navy, but without having any opportunity of re- 
ee his credit, or of adding to his difgrace. Dis iee his 
urn, he became extremely diflipated ; and anx o fig- 
ele himfelf, where he probably pei little Gare he 
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joined the popular get againft the mealures of the court. 
He violently oppofed the oe the edi&is of the king, 
as an infringement of fee right 
- written proteft againft it. 
e proteft; and on the next eh the duke was or ered to 
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he people as dated eal aie and he obtained the 
title of «* Prince of s not contented 
He was elected prefident of the national affembly 
in 1789, but he declined the honour intended him ae 
this time, the people were fuffering moft grievoufly b 
{earcity, almoft approaching to a famine ; and he liberally 
expended his immenfe income in relieving, as 
able, thofe seceies which he could not avert : 
came not only obnoxious to the champions of arbitrary 
power, but was looked u 
Thefe infinuated that the name and popularity 
of the duke might be applied to purpofes the moft dan- 
gerous ; and the duke, who it was thought had given no 
infignificant proof of his forbearance, by declining the prof- 
» now 
r for moderation, by gilda <4 the 
is foversign, and accepting a commiffion to the 
court af St. Jan a withdrew himfelf from the eyes of 
his partial county : i lofe of the 
rumours were propagated, a 
culated, the mott i injurious to the reputation of the duke of 
Orleans, But that prince, by his fudden and unexpeéted 
return, confounded the malice of his enemies, and fet at 
courfe of that tranfaétion, nothing created greater furprife 
te fhould vote, 
It was 
vote apainft the appeal to the people was received with 
equal indications of furprife ; and his opinion on the third 
queftion of life or death was awaited with curiofity and im- 
patience. i i 
thefe words: 
performing my duty ; cenvineed that all who have confpired, 
or 
