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	ROBERT DAMIENS - LoveToKnow Article on ROBERT DAMIENS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		After his discharge, he became a menial in the college of the Jesuits in Paris, and was dismissed from this as well as from other employments for misconduct, his conduct earning for him the name of Robert le Diable.
		with the parlement of Paris the mind of Damiens seems to have been excited by the ecclesiastical disorganization which followed the refusal of the clergy to grant the sacraments to the Jansenists and Convulsionnaires; and he appears to have thought that peace would be restored by the death of the king.
		After his death his house was razed to the ground, his brothers and sisters were ordered to change their names, and his father, wife, and daughter were banished from France.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /D/DA/DAMIENS_ROBERT.htm (289 words)

	Robert-François Damiens - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Robert-François Damiens (1715-1757) was a Frenchman who attained notoriety by unsuccessfully attempting the assassination of Louis XV of France in 1757.
		Damiens was born in a village near Arras in 1715, and early enlisted in the army.
		Damiens' execution is described and discussed at length in the introduction to Michel Foucault's study of systems of punishment, Discipline and Punish.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert%E2%80%93Fran%C3%A7ois_Damiens (415 words)

	Chapter Roads <i>to</i> Robespierre's Weavers of R by Brewer's Readers Handbook
		Robert earl of Huntingdon (The downfall of), a drama by Munday (1601).
		Bertha was the daughter of Robert duke of Normandy, and Bertramo was a fiend in the guise of a knight.
		Robert the Devil or Robert the Magnificent, Robert I. duke of Normandy, father of William “the Conqueror” (*, 1028–1035).
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/174/1128/14954/2.html (451 words)

	French Revolution: Search
		Damiens, even for this English observer, was horrible for having dared to touch, let alone try to kill the King—God’s anointed representative in France and the guarantor of public order and domestic peace.
		In this passage, Damiens testifies that his action had been prompted by "preachers of the Parlementary party," meaning those who criticized the excessive power of the court and the bishops.
		Having found Damiens guilty, the judges ordered him punished in a gruesome public spectacle, with the intention of repressing symbolically, through his body, the threat to order that the judges perceived in his attack on the King.
	chnm.gmu.edu /revolution/searchfr.php?function=find&keyword=damiens (598 words)

	Read about Robert-François Damiens at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Robert-François Damiens and learn about ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Robert-François Damiens (1715-1757) was a Frenchman who attained notoriety by unsuccessfully attempting the assassination of Louis XV of France in
		During the disputes of Pope Clement XI with the parlement of Paris, Damiens' mind seems to have been excited by the ecclesiastical disorganization which followed the refusal of the clergy to grant the sacraments to the Jansenists and
		Damiens' execution is described and discussed at length in the introduction to
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Damiens (445 words)

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		Et Damiens a acheté son couteau à Saint-Omer, est revenu à Paris le 1er janvier 1757 ; il n'a entendu autour de lui que les plaintes du peuple, les récriminations des privilégiés, les injures au roi.
		Deux prêtres tendent alors un crucifix à Damiens...
		Damiens vit toujours, réduit à l'état de tronc.
	nouzautes.net /celebrites/Le_destin_de_Robert_Fran%E7ois_Damiens.htm (2956 words)

	Kids Be Safe : Article 'Robert Forward' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Robert Lull Forward commonly known as Robert L. Forward (August 15, 1932 - September 21, 2002) was a United States physicist and science fiction writer.
		Robert Shing-Hei Liu, Professor of Chemistry, University of Hawaii at Manoa: 1974.
		Robert Y. Turner, Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania: 1974.
	www.kidsbesafe.org /DisplayArticle104460.html (4609 words)

	Chapter River Demon <i>to</i> Robin Goodfellow of R by Brewer's Phrase & Fable
		A nickname given to Robert M'Gregor, who assumed the name of Campbell when the clan M'Gregor was outlawed by the Scotch Parliament in 1662.
		The former was daughter of Robert, Duke of Normandy, and the latter was a fiend in the guise of a knight.
		The opera shows the struggle in Robert between the virtue inherited from his mother, and the vice imparted by his father.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/255/1183/23919/2.html (530 words)

	THE DIGNIFIED DEATH OF A REGICIDE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Adetailed account of the torture and death of Damiens has come down to us, clearly showing that dignity is not the perogative of royal victims.
		Though a strong, sturdy fellow, this executioner found it so difficult to tear away the pieces of flesh that he set about the same spot two or three times, twisting the pincers as he did so, and what he took away formed at each part a wound about the size of a six-pound crown piece.
		Damiens was heard to say "Kiss me gentlemen" and to ask the priest to say a mass for his soul.
	www.gweep.net /~abate/WPIWEB/sick.html (454 words)

	Robert Reed The Defenders Robert Reed (author) October 19 The Brady Bunch cancer May 12 American HIV gay Pasadena, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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		Born in Highland Park, Illinois, Reed studied Shakespeare and was not a comic actor, originally gaining fame in the early 1960s for his leading role on the drama The Defenders.
		William Robert Reed-Roberts was born on November 16, 1995, to Lucas Roberts and Samantha Brady.
	en.powerwissen.com /ftsWmHWLFLbqa5MsTR6QxQ==_Robert_Reed.html (288 words)

	January 5th
		Damiens, the criminal, appeared clearly to be mad.
		The inventions to form the bed on which he lay (as the wounds on his leg prevented his standing), that his health might in no shape be affected, equalled what a reproving tyrant would have sought to indulge his own luxury.
		When carried to the dungeon, Damiens was wrapped up in mattresses, lest despair might tempt him to dash his brains out, but his madness was no longer precipitate.
	www.thebookofdays.com /months/jan/5.htm (3311 words)

	FATHER DAMIEN - LoveToKnow Article on FATHER DAMIEN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He was educated for a business career, but in his eighteenth year entered the Church, joining the Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Mary (also known as the Picpus Congregation), and taking Damien as his name in religion.
		In October 1863, while he was still in minor orders, he went out as a missionary to the Pacific Islands, taking the place of his brother, who had been prevented by an illness.
		Some ill-considered imputations upon Father Damien by a Presbyterian minister produced a memorable tract by Robert Louis Stevenson (An Open Letter to the Rev. Dr Hyde, 1890).
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /D/DA/DAMIEN_FATHER.htm (304 words)

	Executions -=SKYGAZE=- Interesting Facts, The Strange and Unexplained, Mysteries and Secrets
		Robert Damiens, an assassin and member of the Paris underworld in the eighteenth century, was hired by unknown conspirators to take the life of King Louis XV.
		The attempt failed, Damiens was apprehended, and the greatest torturers of the time were brought to Paris to try to get him to divulge the names of his associates.
		Damiens' skin was torn from his body, his hair, eyelids, and elbows were singed to shreds, his teeth and finger joints were wrenched out.
	www.skygaze.com /content/facts/executions.shtml (321 words)

	Robert-Francois Damiens -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Damiens, the son of a gatekeeper, held a succession of jobs as a household servant and was dismissed from several of them for stealing from his employers.
		The great writer Robert Louis Stevenson, famous for Treasure Island, was born in Edinburgh,Scotland on November 13, 1850.
		Robert Goddard and Wernher von Braun were two of the engineers who helped develop rockets.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9028649 (664 words)

	DAMIENS, ROBERT FRANCOIS (1715-1757) - Online Information article about DAMIENS, ROBERT FRANCOIS (1715-1757) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Paris, and was dismissed from this as well as from other employments for misconduct, his conduct earning for him the name of Robert le Diable.
		parlement of Paris the mind of Damiens seems to have been excited by the ecclesiastical disorganization which followed the refusal of the See also:
		See Pieces originates et procedures du proces fait a Robert Francois Damiens (Paris, 1757).
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /DAH_DEM/DAMIENS_ROBERT_FRANCOIS_1715_17.html (463 words)

	National Review: Bloody passion.(on the right)(The Passion of th... @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The court resolved to make an enduring public record of what awaits attempted regicides, to which end were gathered in Paris the half-dozen most renowned torturers of Europe, who in the presence of many spectators managed to keep Damiens alive for six hours of pain before he was finally drawn and quartered.
		Still, the film cannot help moving the viewer, shaking the viewer, even as he'd be moved and shaken by seeing a recreation of the end of Damiens.
		The suffering of Jesus isn't intensified by inflicting the one-thousandth blow: that is the Gibson/Braveheart contribution to an agony which was overwhelmingly spiritual in character and perfectly and definitively caught by Bach in his Passion of Christ According to St. Matthew.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:130931966&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (721 words)

	Adam Riff™ has got the 21st century breathing down his neck » Sunday Reading
		The death of Robert François Damiens before the steps of Notre Dame cathedral in 1757 furnishes provocative material for anyone wishing to argue that God couldn't possibly have had sufficiently good reasons for allowing the Fall of Man.
		His mind unhinged by various ecclesiastical controversies, Damiens had tried to assassinate Louis XV, a deed for which he was convicted as a regicide and sentenced to make the amende honorable in the Place de Grève.
		Unfortunately for Damiens, the horses were strangers to the business of quartering, and they failed to pull him apart.
	www.adamriff.com /?p=909 (566 words)

	National Review Online (http://www.nationalreview.com)
		The film depends, then, on the objectification of the victim as — Jesus of Nazareth; but even then, the story it tells is a gross elaboration of what the Bible yields.
		Still, the film cannot help moving the viewer, shaking the viewer, even as he'd be moved and shaken by seeing a recreation of the end of Robert-François Damiens or one of those British sailors flogged to death.
		The suffering of Jesus isn't intensified by inflicting the one-thousandth blow: that is the Gibson/Braveheart contribution to an agony which was overwhelmingly spiritual in character and perfectly and definitively caught by Johann Sebastian Bach in his aptly named Passion of Christ According to St. Matthew.
	www.nationalreview.com /script/printpage.p?ref=/buckley/buckley200403091608.asp (625 words)

	Re: U.S. City Nuked! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		But before I disappear into obscurity again I'll paste an example of the compassion and forgiveness the French have had for their fellow man. It makes the Iraqi beheadings seem like a trip to an Asian massage parlor.
		"Robert Francois Damiens (1714-57) was a French soldier who attempted to assassinate King Louis XV by stabbing him as he entered his carriage at Versailles.
		One of the executioners said that he was still alive when his trunk was thrown on the stake.' The torso and limbs were reduced to ashes and thrown to the four winds" A.L. Zevaes, Damiens le regicide (1937), cited in M Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The birth of prison (Penguin 1979)
	www.talkabouttelevision.com /group/alt.tv.simpsons/messages/530546.html (691 words)

	DAMIENS -, ARREST de la Cour de Parlement, contre Robert-François Damiens, par lequel il est déclaré dûement ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		DAMIENS -, ARREST de la Cour de Parlement, contre Robert-François Damiens, par lequel il est déclaré dûement atteint & convaincu du crime de parricide par lui commis sur la personne du Roi (Louis XV).
		On January 5, 1757, Damiens attacked Louis XV with a knife, without doing much harm.
		Enligthened people were terrified by the violent punishment put on Damiens and which provoked numerous publications against certain forms of punishment.The second pieces contains the arrest by which also Damiens relatives were banned from France.
	www.polybiblio.com /gerits/23247.html (160 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| dummy \| Day 379
		In Paris, Robert Francois Damiens tried to assassinate Louis XV, and paid a truly dreadful price.
		Whatever the truth of the Black Hole of Calcutta, the Nawab was certainly not to blame.
		But the story was a useful propaganda weapon for Robert Clive, now a lieutenant-colonel in the Company's army.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Millennium/0,2833,266914,00.html (611 words)

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	Public Opinion and Communication Networks in Eighteenth-Century Paris
		And when he took up with Mme de Pompadour in 1745, they complained that he was stripping the kingdom bare in order to heap jewelry and châteaux on a vile commoner.
		This attitude may help explain the over-reaction to the half-hearted assassination attempt by Robert Damiens eight years later.
		It suggests that the monarch, theoretically absolute in his sovereignty, felt vulnerable to the disapproval of his subjects and that he might even bend policy to conform to what he perceived as public opinion.
	www.historycooperative.org /ahr/darnton_files/darnton/pocn/08.html (1207 words)

	Find in a Library: The Damiens affair and the unraveling of the ancien régime, 1750-1770
		Find in a Library: The Damiens affair and the unraveling of the ancien régime, 1750-1770
		The Damiens affair and the unraveling of the ancien régime, 1750-1770
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	www.worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/1675a61ddbbc1a83.html (86 words)

	Edmund Burke
		The cause of this I shall endeavor to investigate hereafter.
		* Robert Damiens (1714-57), who attempted to murder Louis XV and was tortured to death.
		THE passion which belongs to generation, merely as such, is lust only; this is evident in brutes, whose passions are more unmixed, and which pursue their purposes more directly than ours.
	www.pitt.edu /AFShome/u/l/ulin/public/html/envirolit/edmund_burke.htm (822 words)

	Louis XV of France
		Popular faith in the monarchy was shaken by the scandals of Louis' private life, and by the end of his life he had become the well-hated.
		In 1757, would-be assassin Robert Damiens entered Versailles and stabbed him in the side with a penknife.
		In 1743, France entered the War of the Austrian Succession.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/l/lo/louis_xv_of_france.html (693 words)

	BREWER: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 1061-1062 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It consists of two parts, the first of which is in octosyllabic rhymes, and is a translation of Wace's Brut; the second part is in Alexandrine verse, and is a translation of the French chronicle of Piers de Langtoft, of Yorkshire.
		Robert's Men Bandits, marauders, etc. So called from Robin Hood, the outlaw.
		Robespierre's Weavers The fish-women and other female rowdies who joined the Parisian Guard, and helped to line the avenues to the National Assembly in 1793, and clamour “Down with the Girondists!”
	kenji.cnu.ac.kr /my/references/phrase/data/1061.html (1179 words)

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