Malesherbes, Lamoignon de (17211794)

Malesherbes, Lamoignon de, French statesman, born in Paris; a good and upright man; was twice over called to be one of Louis XVI.'s advisers, but his advice was not taken and he retired; defended Louis at his trial; pled for him “with eloquent want of eloquence, in broken sentences, in embarrassment and sobs,” and was guillotined for it; he had been censor of the press, and to his liberal-minded censorship the world owes the publication of the “Encyclopédie” (17211794).

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)

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Malaise
Malaprop, Mrs.
Mälar Lake
Malay Archipelago
Malays
Malcolm, Sir John
Malcolm Canmore
Maldive Islands
Malebolge
Malebranche, Nicholas
Malesherbes, Lamoignon de
Malherbe, François de
Malignants
Malines
Malingering
Mallet, David
Mallock, William Hurrell
Malmaison
Malmesbury, William of
Malmö
Malone, Edmund