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higlif (iou) and Mirabeau, Honore-Gabriel Riqueti, count de (sh)


higlif (iou)



higlif noun. [iglif] E20.
[Repr. a French pronunc. of high life.]
English high society (seen from the point of view of the French or Other Europeans).

Mirabeau, Honore-Gabriel Riqueti, count de (sh)




orig. Honore-Gabriel Riqueti

born March 9, 1749, Bignon, near Nemours, France
died April 2, 1791, Paris

French politician and orator.

Son of the economist Victor Riqueti (1715-89), he suffered his father's disfavour; often imprisoned for intrigues and wild behaviour (1774-80), he wrote several essays on prison life. In 1789 he was elected to the Estates General from the Third Estate. A skilled orator, he was popular with the people and was influential in the early years of the French Revolution. He advocated a constitutional monarchy and tried to mediate between the absolute monarchists and the revolutionaries. He was elected president of the National Assembly in 1791, but he died shortly thereafter.