Rais

[ res; French res ]

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noun

Rais

/ res /

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

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

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

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

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

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

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