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P is a flourishing little city, perched on the side of a rocky hill, with a broad landscape spreading out at its feet. The best hotel is called "L'hotel des Hommes Illustres" and its façade is adorned with the statues of the above mentioned gentlemen carved in stone.
Chapter iii. 2. Témoignez vos respects aux hommes illustres & honorables, le chappeau en la main, comme aux Ecclesiastiques, ou aux Magistrats, ou
"Historia affectuum se immiscentium controversiæ de gynæcocratia." It is in his collected prefaces; Leipsic, 1683. "OEuvres de d'Aubigné," i. 449. "Dames Illustres," pp. 358-360. Works of John Knox, iv. 349. M'Crie's "Life of Knox," ii. 41. Described by Calvin in a letter to Cecil, Knox's Works, vol. iv.
On November 25, 1560, he gave up the ghost: he was a great seaman, but still more a passionate lover of his country; despotic in his love, but not the less a noble Genoese patriot. Brantôme, Hommes illustres étrangers. Œuvres, i. 279. Froissart's Chron., transl. T. Johnes ii. 446, 465, ff. See the Story of Turkey, 170. See Jurien de la Gravière, Les Corsaires Barbaresques, 193-215.
The right wing enclosed an elaborate Salle de Spectacle while that to the left enclosed an equally imposing chamber with a ceiling by Philippe de Champaigne, known as the Galerie des Hommes Illustrés, and further ornamented with portraits of most of the court favourites of both sexes of the time.
In the first book of his Annals he gives the following account of it in these words: Primus Augustus cognitionem de famosis libellis, specie legis ejus, tractavit; commotus Cassii Severi libidine, qua viros faeminasque illustres procacibus scriptis diffamaverat.
His leadership in war we have seen to be but the natural continuance of his original office; and that as dux he was to be ranked among the first nobles of the land, the "optimates," the "viri illustres," we can see from the following passage in the laws of Liutprand, when in the prologue to the third book already quoted, he gives forth the edict with the judges as "una cum illustribus viris optimatibus meis ex Neustriae et Austriae et Tusciae partibus vel universis nobilibus Langobardis."
Though this is not stated by any writer, it seems an inevitable conclusion from the law which was passed in the autumn of that year, assessing the penalty of death to anyone who had conspired "with soldiers or private persons, including barbarians," against the lives "of illustres who belong to our consistory or assist at our counsels," or other senators, such a conspiracy being considered equivalent to treason.
Then he said to him, 'Now go home to the King, and say that if he sends any more cavalry I will blow them all into the air. When the King received the message, he said, 'Let the fellows go; they are bewitched. Then the Six brought the treasure home, shared it among themselves, and lived contentedly till the end of their days. From Les fees illustres.
According to that painter's Libro de Descripcion de verdaderos Retratos de illustres y memorables varones, Luis de Leon was below the middle height; he had a large but shapely head, covered with thick and rather curly hair which grew densely on the crown; his brow was broad; his features were more blunt than aquiline; his complexion was darkish; his green eyes were bright; his aspect was grave; and, we may add, he was prone to walk quickly.
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