Jean le Rond d ' Alembert withdrew from the enterprise and other powerful colleagues, including Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune, declined to contribute further to a book which had acquired a bad reputation.

The romance tradition of Arthur is particularly evident and, according to critics, successfully handled in Robert Bresson's Lancelot du Lac ( 1974 ), Eric Rohmer's Perceval le Gallois ( 1978 ) and perhaps John Boorman's fantasy film Excalibur ( 1981 ); it is also the main source of the material utilised in the Arthurian spoof Monty Python and the Holy Grail ( 1975 ).

For example, Robert le Bougre, the " Hammer of Heretics " ( Malleus Haereticorum ), was a Dominican friar who became an inquisitor known for his cruelty and violence.

Espionage genre elders such as John le Carré, Frederick Forsyth, Robert Littell, and Charles McCarry resumed work.

However, satire is used in some " serious " operas as well: Formerly, in countries such as France, operas expressed politics in code — for example, the circumstances of the title character in the opera Robert le diable referred, at its first performance, to the French king's parental conflict and its resolution.

* Exemplaires numérisés d ' anciennes éditions d ' œuvres de Robert Estienne sur le site des Bibliothèques virtuelles humanistes

* Robert Estienne sur le Musée virtuel du protestantisme français.

** Robert le Coq, French bishop and councillor

* January 28 – Robert le Maçon, Chancellor of France

After Meyerbeer's successful opera Robert le Diable ( 1831 ), neo-medievalists and occultists began to apply the name Robin Goodfellow to the Devil, with appropriately extravagant imagery.

* Robert le Maçon ( c. 1365 – 1443 ), chancellor of France, advisor to Charles VII and supporter of Joan of Arc

In 1970, Brel appeared in his fourth feature film, Mont-Dragon, directed by Jean Valère and co-starring François Prévost, Paul le Person and Catherine Rouvel, with a screen play by Robert Margerit.

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation produced a dramatization of all three Gormenghast novels, adapted by Michael le Moignan and Larry Lucas and produced by David Chandler, Frank Zeppel, and Robert Cubbage.

His lieutenants included Berkhamsted men such as Everard Halsey, John Wood, Stephen of Champneys, Robert Whittingham, Edward le Bourne, Richard of Gaddesden, and Henry of Berkhamsted.

As a child, Rupert was at times badly behaved, " fiery, mischievous, and passionate " and earned himself the nickname Robert le Diable, or " Rupert The Devil ".

* Robert Surcouf: Souvenirs historiques sur Mahé de La Bourdonnais: le combat de La Hogue.

* Robert Kerr ( 1824 ): Voyage round the world, in 1615-1617, by William Cornelison Schouten and Jacques le Maire, going round Cape Horn.

* Giacomo Meyerbeer, composer, completed here his opera Robert le diable in 1830.

Giacomo Meyerbeer ( born Jacob Liebmann Beer ) ( 5 September 1791 – 2 May 1864 ) was a German opera composer, who with his 1831 opera Robert le diable and its successors gave the genre of grand opera ' decisive character '.

His 1824 opera Il crociato in Egitto was the first to bring him Europe-wide reputation, but it was Robert le diable ( 1831 ) which raised his status to great celebrity.

Robert le diable ( with libretto by Eugène Scribe and Casimir Delavigne ), produced in Paris in 1831, was one of the earliest grand operas.

Berlioz – who had commented that ' Meyerbeer not only had the luck to be talented, he had the talent to be lucky ' – wrote ' I can't forget that Meyerbeer was only able to persuade Opéra to put on Robert le diable ... by paying the administration sixty thousand francs of his own money '; and Chopin lamented ' Meyerbeer had to work for three years and pay his own expenses for his stay in Paris before Robert le diable could be staged .... Three years, that's a lot – it's too much.

The main tenant is said to be Robert from Roger Bigot.

Rummel has responded that the 20 million estimate is based on a figure from Robert Conquest's 1968 book The Great Terror, and that Conquest's qualifier " almost certainly too low " is usually forgotten.

As father-in-law to the newly-widowed Robert Cecil, Cobham certainly possessed the influence at court to get his complaint heard quickly.

In June 1937, when Lord Mount Temple, the Chairman of the Anglo-German Fellowship, asked to see the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain after meeting Hitler in a visit arranged by Ribbentrop, Robert Vansittart, the British Foreign Office's Undersecretary wrote a memo stating that :" The P. M. Minister should certainly not see Lord Mount Temple – nor should the S of S. We really must put a stop to this eternal butting in of amateurs – and Lord Mount Temple is a particularly silly one.

While it certainly reminds one of earlier composers such as Robert Schumann, it undeniably also bears the hallmarks of the later Bruckner style.

Many sources say it was named for General Robert E. Lee, which is certainly possible given that it was formed near the time of Lee's death.

IGN's Robert Canning in a 2008 review of the episode noted, " though not the funniest of episodes, it certainly was groundbreaking.

Historian Robert Quimby says, " the British certainly did win a tactical victory, which enabled them to maintain their position ".

He certainly did nothing to conciliate the favour of the government by his next work, The Beggar's Opera, a Ballad opera produced on the January 29, 1728 by John Rich, in which Sir Robert Walpole was caricatured.

Professor Robert Chesney, of Wake Forest University Law School, said: It is certainly not uncommon for the government to expect a defendant to testify in the wake of a plea agreement.

According to Robert H. Hewsen, these tribes were " certainly not of Armenian origin ", and " although certain Iranian peoples must have settled here during the long period of Persian and Median rule, most of the natives were not even Indo-Europeans.

Robert makes Urban emphasize reconquering the Holy Land more than aiding the Greeks ; the intervening decades and the events of the First Crusade had certainly shifted the emphasis.

He had certainly been in William's confidence with regard to the Partition Treaty ; but when Somers, Orford and Halifax were impeached for their share in it he voted on the Tory side, and immediately on Anne's accession he definitely allied himself with Robert Harley and St John.

The tradition that Langland was a Wycliffite, an idea promoted by Robert Crowley's 1550 edition of Piers and complicated by early Lollard appropriation of the Plowman-figure ( see, for instance, Pierce the Ploughman's Crede and The Plowman's Tale ), is almost certainly incorrect.

Robert Van Voorst states that the vast majority of the agrapha are certainly inauthentic.

Buchan's increased influence in Scottish affairs was again furthered when sometime before February 1387, he was appointed Justiciar North of the Forth Carrick's guardianship of Scotland had not been a success and certainly failed to reign in Buchan and so late in 1388, King Robert's second son, Robert, Earl of Fife became the effective ruler of the Kingdom.

Robert Shaw wrote, “ And it is just as certainly because of his kindness, honesty, humor, and wisdom that our hearts are warmed to see Robert Russell Bennett without peer in his field .” Robert Russell Bennett is also known to have mentored Broadway and concert arranger William David Brohn ; they first worked together on the 1966 Lincoln Center revival of Show Boat.

* Robert Browning is usually credited with perfecting the form ; certainly, Browning is the poet who, above all, produced his finest and most famous work in this form.

In the court intrigues of Elizabeth's reign, Pembroke, was regarded as a partisan of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester and was certainly in very intimate relations with him.

It often printed letters from established writers, and from fans who would go on to become well known professionally: Damon Knight's letters are described by sf historian Mike Ashley as " legendary "; and Robert Silverberg commented in a letter in the Summer 1950 issue that Ray Bradbury " certainly gets some original ideas, if not good ones ".

A former badminton champion, a film actor, a former sailor, a whale butcher, an: ex-barman, an antiquarian, a musician ( jazz to be sure ) a chaufeur, a confectioner and a croupler, a grandfather at thirty-seven, the Danish: Robert Jacobsen is certainly one of the best sculptors of our time, a worthy successor of the Rumanian Brâncuşi, of the Russian Pevsner, of: the American Calder and of one or two others whom you may choose according to you tastes ...|

While the Statute is believed to have led to the abolition of devises ( and this was certainly the King's intent ), Robert Megarry argues that it failed in doing so.

The present building certainly dates back to the 14th century and was probably built in 1330 by Robert de Leycester as a chapel for the Manor House.