When the labour guilds of Antwerp and Brussels protested vigorously against the government taxes and tried to assert their ancient privileges, Prié caused the aged Frans Anneessens, syndic or chairman of one of these guilds, to be arrested and put to death (1719).
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Hercule-Louis Turinetti, marquis of Prié (Piedmont, 27 November 1658 – Vienna, 12 januari, 1726), was interim Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands between 1716 and 1724.
François de Rohan, Prince of Soubise (1630 – 24 August 1712) married Cathérine Lyonne and had no issue; married again to Anne de Rohan-Chabot, Princess of Soubise, and had issue; founder of the Soubise line of the House of Rohan;
During the reign of Louis XVI the salon d’Hercule served for diplomatic functions such as the embassy sent by the bey of Tunis (January 1777); the receptions of the representatives of the Three Estates of the Estates-General (May 1789); and, the reception of the embassy of the sultan Mysore (September 1778) (Verlet, 555).
Hercule Poirot | Hercule | Louis Hercule Timoléon de Cossé-Brissac | Hercule Corbineau | Hercule Nicolet | Hercule Mériadec, Prince of Guéméné | Hercule Mériadec, Duke of Rohan-Rohan | André-Hercule de Fleury |
The station building appears as "Marble Hill" underground station in the episode "Wasps' Nest" of the Agatha Christie's Poirot TV series with David Suchet as Hercule Poirot.
ITV adapted the story into a television programme in the series Agatha Christie's Poirot starring David Suchet as Hercule Poirot and Zoë Wanamaker as Ariadne Oliver, which aired in the US on A&E Network in December 2005 and, in the UK, on ITV1 in March 2006.
His two brothers Jean and Hercule also fought in both these wars and together the three men were known as "les trois Horaces" (the three Horatii).
When the National Constituent Assembly split on 3 September 1791, it decreed that king Louis XVI should have a Constitutional Guard, also known as the garde Brissac after its commander Louis Hercule Timolon de Cossé, duc de Brissac.
Fléchier was born at Pernes-les-Fontaines, in the département of Vaucluse, in the Comtat Venaissin, and brought up at Tarascon by his uncle, Hercule Audiffret, superior of the Congrégation des Doctrinaires.
His first role in the series was as Hercule Lajoy, Inspector Clouseau's stonefaced assistant, in A Shot in the Dark (1964).
Hercule Mériadec died at Sainte-Maure aged sixty nine and was succeeded by his son, Jules.
Louis-Hercule (1734-1792), Duke of Brissac, died without male issue
Jules, Prince of Guéméné (1726–1800), son of Hercule Mériadec, Prince of Guéméné and Louise de Rohan
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Jules, Prince of Soubise (1697–1724), son of Hercule Mériadec, Duke of Rohan-Rohan and Anne Geneviève de Lévis
After considering in isolation And Death Came Too, Mr. Ashley turned his attention to Murder is Easy and started, "Mrs Christie has abandoned M. Hercule Poirot in her new novel, but it must be confessed that his understudy, Luke Fitzwilliam, a retired policeman from the Mayang States is singularly lacking in 'little grey matter.' Poirot may have recently become, with advancing years, a trifle staid, but absence makes the heart grow fonder of him."
His good looks and ready wit brought him attention; but, though endowed with immense physical strength—Madame de Craon called him "Hercule sous la figure d'Adonis" — he lived so hard that he was glad to have the opportunity to do a cure at Spa when the Belgian minister in Paris, M. van Eyck, invited Chamfort to accompany him to Germany in 1761.