Damiens, ROBERT

FRANCO IS, 1714-1757. Would-be regicide of Louis XV. of France, executed with frightful tortures. Damietta. Town of Lower Egypt, pt, on e. mouth of the Nile; founded ab. 1251, near the site of Tam i a this, which had been taken by the Crusaders after a 16 months' siege 1218, and by a ault by Louis IX. 1249, but restored 1250. The French took it 1798. It gives the name Dimity to a cambric first made here. Pop. ab. 55,000.