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VALET (Fr. valet; O. Fr. vaslet), a term now restricted in meaning to that of a gentleman's personal servant. The origin of the word is debated. Du Cange (Glossarium, s. Valeti) explains it as the diminutive of vassallus, a vassal, the sons of vassalli being t ...

VALLES, JULES (1832-1885), French journalist and author, was born at Puys, France, on the icth of June 1832. Coming to Paris, he joined the staff of the Figaro, and became a constant contributor to the other leading journals. In 1866 he republished much of his

VARLEY, CORNELIUS (1781-1873), English water-colour painter, a younger brother of John Varley (<?.».), was born at Hackney, London, on the aist of November 1781. He was educated by his uncle, a philosophical instrument maker, and under him acquired a knowledge

... after it. In 1698 she brought out a third volume of sacred verse, Et kristeligt Valet fra Verden (" A Christian Farewell to the World ") , a very tame production. She died on the igth of February 1716. The first verses of Dorthe Engelbrechtsdatter are the best ...

... archbishop of Bordeaux. He died in 1642. His eldest son, Henri de Nogaret de la Valette, duke of Candale, served under Richelieu, in the armies of Guienne, of Picardy and of Italy. The second son of Jean Louis de Nogaret, Bernard, who was born in 1592, and die ...

... ned to something of its original sense of " household servant " in the modern " valet " (q.v.) (see also VAVASSOR). See Dictionnaire de I'ancienne langue frangaise (Paris, 1895), for numerous examples of the use of the word vassal; also Du Cange, Glossarium, s ...

... vassor is very obscure. The fanciful interpretation of Bracton, vas sortitum ad valetudinem (a vessel chosen to honour), may be at once rejected. Others would derive it from vassi ad valvas (at the folding-doors, valvae), i.e. servants of the royal antechamber ...