Rohan
HENRI DE, a French Protestant leader; born in Brittany, France, Aug. 25 (or 21), 1579. He is less remarkable for military achievements than for his four books of memoirs: the first three published under the title "Memoirs on Events in France from the Death of Henry the Great to June, 1629" (1644), covering the civil wars; and the fourth as "Memoirs and Letters on the War of and the Spanish. They rank among the had sent him to keep off the Imperialists and the Spanish. They rank among the finest of the memoirs written by the aristocracy of the 16th and 17th centuries. He also wrote "The Perfect Captain" (1636), a political tract; and others. He died April 13, 1638.
PRINCE DE, Cardinal-Archbishop of ROHAN, LOUIS RENE ÉDOUARD, PRINCE DE, Cardinal-Archbishop of Strasburg; born in 1734. He became coburg, and afterward his successor; was sent in 1772 as ambassador to Vienna, adjutor to his uncle in the see of Strassent in 1772 as ambassador to Vienna, where he displayed the most ridiculous luxury, but vainly sought to obtain the coadjutor he had ceremonially received the Princess Marie Antoinette on her entrance into France. On the death of Louis XV. he returned to Paris, and for 10 years bent all his energies and efforts to winning the favor of the queen, but all in vain. Nevertheless he had meanwhile become, in spite of his known profligacy, Archbishop, Grand-Almoner, Cardinal and Commendator of St. Vaast of Acres, one of the richest benefices in France. Associate of the quack Cagliostro, and of the infamous Madame Lamotte, he was duped by a forged letter with the signature of the queen, and induced to buy of Boehmer, the court jeweler, the now too celebrated diamond necklace, in the name of the queen. The necklace was placed in the hands of Madame Lamotte, forged autograph messages from the queen followed, and an sages from the queen followed, and an interview in the park of Versailles be- G-Cyc Vol 8 ROHILKHAND tween the cardinal and a fair adventuress personating the queen. On the discovery of the fraud, Rohan was summoned before the king, answered vaguely and unsatisfactorily, and was arrested and imprisoned in the Bastile, Aug. 15, 1785. After a year's proceedings he was acquitted and released, but at the same time exiled from the court, and deprived of his grand-almonership. He was deputy to the States-General in 1789; was afterward accused of various disloyal intrigues and maladministration; gave up his see in 1801, and died in 1803.