(2 syl.). Le père Duchésne. Jacques Réné Hébert, chief of the Cordelier Club in the French Revolution, the members of which were called Hébertists. He was called “Father Duchésne,” from…
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(Dr.). A learned student, very dry and uncompanionable; very particular over his books, and the tutor of Eugenia, the niece of Sir Hugh. He is a character in Camilla, the third novel of…
Winston GrahamAge: 93 British novelist who wrote a series of 12 historical novels about the Poldarks, an 18th-century Cornwall family. The series was adapted for two TV miniseries. Died:…
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