ttempted the honor of the lady,
and Jaffier took her back in order to protect her from such insults. The
old villain died on the wheel, and no one pitied him.--T. Otway, _Venice
Preserved_ (1682).

=Ren['e]=, the old king of Provence, father of Queen Margaret of Anjou
(wife of Henry VI. of England). A minstrel-monarch, friend to the chase
and tilt, poetry, and music. Thiebault says he gave in largesses to
knights-errant and minstrels more than he received in revenue (ch.
xxix.).--Sir W. Scott, _Anne of Geierstein_ (time, Edward IV.).

_Ren['e]_ (2 _syl._), the hero and title of a romance by Ch[^a]teaubriand
(1801). It was designed for an episode to his _G['e]nie du Christianisme_
(1802). Ren['e] is a man of social inaction, conscious of possessing a
superior genius, but his pride produces in him a morbid bitterness of
spirit.

_Ren['e]_ [LEBLANC], notary public of Grand Pr['e], in Arcadia (_Nova
Scotia_). Bent with age, but with long yellow hair flowing over his
shoulders. He was the father of twenty children, and had a hundred
grandchildren. When Acadia was ceded by the French to England, George
II. confiscated the goods of the simple colonists, and drove them into
exile. Ren['e] went to Pennsylvania, where he died, and was
buried.--Longfellow, _Evangeline_ (1849).

=Renton= (_Dr._). A Boston physician, whose best friend, dying, leaves a
letter charging Renton, "_In the name of the Saviour, be true and tender
to mankind_." The doctor believes himself to be haunted by the ghost of
this man, intent upon inforcing the admonition, and the needy and the
afflicted profit by the hallucination.--William D. O'Connor, _The
Ghost_.

=Rentowel= (_Mr. Jabesh_), a covenanting preacher.--Sir W. Scott,
_Waverley_ (time, George II.).

With vehemence of some pulpit-drumming Gowkthrapple, or "precious"
Mr. Jabesh Rentowel.--Carlyle.

=Renzo and Lucia=, the hero and heroine of an Italian novel by Alessandro
Manzoni, entititled[TN-122] _The Betrothed Lover_ ("I Promessi Sposi").
This novel contains an account of the Bread Riot and plague of Milan.
Cardinal Borro'meo is also introduced. There is an English translation
(1827).

=Republican Queen=, (_The_), Sophie Charlotte, wife of Frederick I. of
Prussia.

=Resequenz=, wily major-domo to the duke of Romagna, audacious,
unscrupulous and treacherous.--William Waldorf Astor, _Valentino_
(1886).

=Resolute= (_The_), John Florio, philologist (1545?-1625). Tr