Duke-Street, Lambeth.
PORTRAITS AND BIOGRAPHIES
CONTAINED IN THIS VOLUME.
| 1. | Daguesseau | [1] |
| 2. | Cromwell | [11] |
| 3. | Lionardo da Vinci | [21] |
| 4. | Vauban | [29] |
| 5. | William III. | [37] |
| 6. | Goethe | [46] |
| 7. | Correggio[[1]] | [57] |
| 8. | Napoleon | [67] |
| 9. | Linnæus | [77] |
| 10. | Priestley[[1]] | [85] |
| 11. | Ariosto | [93] |
| 12. | Marlborough | [104] |
| 13. | De l’Epée | [113] |
| 14. | Colbert | [122] |
| 15. | Washington | [128] |
| 16. | Murillo | [137] |
| 17. | Cervantes | [147] |
| 18. | Frederic II. | [155] |
| 19. | Delambre | [165] |
| 20. | Drake | [170] |
| 21. | Charles V. | [179] |
| 22. | Des Cartes | [189] |
| 23. | Spenser | [194] |
| 24. | Grotius | [201] |
[1]. The paging of Part XXVII. has accidentally been repeated in Part XXVIII.
Engraved by J. Mollison.
DAGUESSEAU.
(From am original Picture by Mignardi in the
possession of the Conntesa Segur.)
Under the Superintendance of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
London. Published by Charles Knight, Ludgate Street, & Pall Mall East.
DAGUESSEAU.
The Chancellor Daguesseau is said to have been descended from a noble family of the province of Saintonge; if so, he was careless of his privileges, for he never used between the two first letters of his name the comma, indicative of noble birth. He came however of distinguished parentage; for his grandfather had been First President of the Parliament of Bordeaux, and his father was appointed, by Colbert, Intendant of the Limousin, and subsequently advanced to the Intendancies of Bordeaux and of Languedoc. In the latter government he suggested to Colbert the grand idea of uniting the Ocean and the Mediterranean by means of that mighty work, the Canal of Languedoc. In the persecution raised against the Protestants of the South of France by Louis XIV., he was distinguished by mildness; and to his honour be it remembered, one person only perished under his jurisdiction. Disgusted by the dragonnades, and by the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, he resigned his Intendancy, and removed to Paris, where he continued to enjoy the royal favour, and to be employed in offices of trust: so that he may be said not only to have formed his son’s youth, but to have watched over his manhood.