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When "Louis Hercule Timoleon de Cossé-Brissac, soldier from his birth," was charged before the National High Court with admitting Royalists into the Guards, he answered: "I have admitted into the King's Guards no one but citizens who fulfilled all the conditions contained in the decree of formation": and no other answer or plea would he deign to his accusers.
They had only lately arrived in Italy from New York, I suppose but already she was said to be engaged to a needy Italian nobleman named Hercule Ferruci." "Then I suppose the Clynes were rich," said Lucian, "for I know those Italian nobles too well to suspect that this Count Ferruci would pay attention to any one but an heiress." "She was supposed to be rich, Mr. Denzil.
Hercule that is my husband's name, citizens asked the corporal what the Committee of Public Safety wanted with us poor hoteliers of a wayside inn. "Only food and shelter for to-night for me and my men," replied the corporal, quite civilly. "You can rest here," said Hercule, and he pointed to the benches in the coffee-room, "and if there is any soup left in the stockpot, you are welcome to it."
Alexis Paul Abelard Joseph Maurice Cleophas Hector Jerome Panteleon Etienne Jean Gabriel Jules Alfred Napoleon François-Xavier Hercule Narcisse Patrick Zenophile Pierre Joseph Louis-Felippe Alphonse Arthur while the daughters were: Minnie Archange Emma Catherine Lucille Victoria Cécile Marie-Antoinette Colombe Brigide Zenobie Eugenie Louise Angelique Bernardette Ste. Anne.
In 1628, Marie d'Avangour quitted her convent to espouse Hercule de Rohan, Duke de Montbazon, who was the father, by his first marriage, of Madame de Chevreuse and of the Prince de Guéméné. She was sixteen, and he sixty-one.
"At Hercule olim ex Itaila legionibus longinquas in provincias commeatus portabantur, nec nunc infecunditate laboratur; sed Africam potius et Egyptum exercemus, navibusque et casibus vita populi Romani permissa est." TACITUS, Annal. xii. 43. Antiquity does not contain a more pregnant and important passage, or one more directly bearing on the present policy of the Britsh emprire, than this.
To finish up our stay at Rio, we gave the emperor and his family, and the whole of society both foreign and Brazilian, a ball on board our ship. Towards the end of the evening, I turned a young lion I had been given in Senegal loose in the ball-room, and his appearance somewhat disturbed the figures of the cotillon. From Rio the Hercule called in succession at Guiana, Martinique and Guadaloupe.
Should I add to these the epithets of wise, brave, elegant, and indeed every other amiable epithet in our language, I might surely say, Quis credet? nemo Hercule! nemo; Vel duo, vel nemo; and yet I know a man who is all I have here described.
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