Rais

[ res; French res ]

noun

1. Gilles de. Retz, Gilles de Laval, Baron de.

Rais

/ res /

noun

1. RaisGilles de14041440MFrenchPOLITICS: noblemanMILITARY: soldier Gilles de (ʒil də). 1404–40, French nobleman who fought with Joan of Arc: marshal of France (1429–40). He was executed for the torture and murder of more than 140 children

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The rais house was a typical sample of the ordinary mountain cabin; walled with rough stone rubble, and floored with beaten earth.

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Gilles de Rais met with a well-deserved end: in 1440 he was hanged and burnt.

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Fond impious man, thinks thou yon sanguine cloud,Rais'd by thy breath, has quench'd the orb of day?

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Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.

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The Structure consists but of one Floor, on which are rais'd six large Pavilions, viz.

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