The General Biographical Dictionary
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ISBN13: 9780217583749
Paperback|9780217583749
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: letter of Eginhard's still extant, lamenting the death of his wife, which is written in the tenderest strain of connubial affliction; it daes not, however, express that this lady was the affectionate princess, and indeed some late critics have proved that Imma was not the daughter of Charlemagne. Eginhard, however, appears to have been a native of Germany, and educated by the munificence of his imperial master, of which he has left the most grateful testimony in his preface to the life of that monarch. After the loss of his lamented wife, he is supposed to have passed the remainder of his days in religious retirement, and to have died soon after the year 840. His life of Charlemagne, written in a style superior to that of his age, his Annals from 741 to 889, and his letters, are all inserted in the second volume of Duchesne's Scriptores Francorum. But there is an improved edition of this valuable historian, with the annotations of Hermann Schmincke, in 4to, 1711, and another yet more improved by professor Bredow, in 1806.1 EGLANTINE, Fabrk. See FABRE. EGMONT (Justus Van), a painter, was born at Leyden in 1602. Who was his master is not known. He travelled early in life, and his longest stay was in Franco, where be was painter to Lewis XIII. and Lewis XIV. and one of the twelve elders of the then establishment of the royal academy of painting and sculpture of Paris, Jan. 20, 1643. He assisted Vouet in many of his historical works, and himself painted history in various dimensions. He was a person of consideration in his time, and especially at court.' It is. not known what induced him to leave France; but it i certain that he returned to Antwerp, where he died, January 8, 1674, and his wife on June 19, 1685. They were both buried in the church of St. James. EGMONT ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217583749 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217583741 |
| Weight | 0.92 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.63 In |
| List Price | $27.74 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 280 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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