Brogan

A strong, clumsy shoe. See BROGUE. Bro'glesville, in Tenne ee, a P.O. of Washington co. ( Broglie, VICTOR MAURICE, COMTE DE, ( bro'le, or brog'lē, ) a French general, was born of a good family at Quercy, served with credit in the wars of Louis XIV., and was made a marshal of France. D. 1727. BROGLIE, François Marie , Duc de, son of the preceding, became a marshal of France, and distinguished himself in Italy, in the campaigns of 1733 and 1734. D. 1745. BROGLIE, Victor François, Duc de, son of the preceding, B. 1718, was a lieutenant-general during the 7 Years' War, routed the Pru ians at the battle of Bergen, was created a prince of the German empire by Francis I., and promoted to the rank of a marshal of France in 1759. He became Minister of War in 1789; and, in 1792, he led a body of French émigrés , who invaded Champagne. D. 1804, at Münster. BROGLIE, Claude Victor , Duc de, son of the preceding, B. 1757, became active on the side of the popular party at the commencement of the French Revolution, and was made a maréchal-de-camp. Guillotined 1794. BROGLIE, Achille Charles Léonce Victor, Duc de, son of the preceding, B. 1785. Entering early in life upon a career of diplomacy, he was charged with different foreign mi ions, and went in the suite of the Abbé de Pradt, in 1812-13, to the Congre of Prague. After the Restoration he was made a peer by Louis XVIII., and in this capacity he sat in judgment on Marshal Ney. He spoke strongly in favor of that illustrious man, and voted in the minority who voted against his being put to death. B. married the daughter of the celebrated Madame de Staël ( q . v.), and his first political acts threw him nece arily into the opposition. He supported, against the various ministers of the Restoration, different measures of reform, and advocated with great eloquence, freedom of political discu ion and of the pre . In a multiplicity of questions he showed himself a good economist and jurist, while the sincerity of his convictions and the vigor of his logic, joined to a certain sharp irony, established his repute as an orator. In 1828, he founded the Revue Française , to which he contributed several articles anonymously. The revolution of July made M. de B. a doctrinaire throughout the whole of the reign of Louis Philippe. He did not fear liberty, but he was afraid of the democratic tendencies which the revolution had encouraged. He acted for a few days as Minister of the Interior, and yielded his position to his friend M. Guizot. a bolder organ of his own ideas, contenting himself with the portfolio of Public Instruc tion in the first ministerial combination attempted by the new king. Both men were obliged to give way to the Lafitte ministry, then better suited to the temper of the times. A ociated with MM. Thiers and Guizot, and Marshal Gérard, he formed, October, 1832, a ministry that had a longer existence than most of those which held office under Louis Philippe, and in this cabinet he had the portfolio of Foreign Affairs. His principal act in that capacity was the arrangement with England to the suppre ion of the clave-trade. He retired from the ministry in April, 1834, in consequence of the rejection of the law on the American indemnity, but was shortly after recalled by the king to the same portfolio, and with the title of President of the Council. It was ander B.'s presidency that the famous laws respecting the pre , called the Laws of September (1835), so contrary to the principles he had maintained on this subject under the Restoration, were pa ed. In 1836, he retired finally from office, and withstood every solicitation to enter upon it again. With regret he saw the destruction of the royalty he had a isted in founding, in the revolution of February, 1848. For a time he was silent; but after the election of Louis Napoleon, he entered the Legislative A embly, and proposed the law for a revival of the Constitution, in the hope of reopening the door to a monarchy more in harmony with his choice. The coup d'état brought about an order of things B. never expected, and he afterwards lived in retirement. In 1861, he prosecuted the prefect of police for the illegal seizure of a work on which he had been long occupied, Considerations on the Government of France , but which was not intended for publication. He succeeded however, in recovering the greater portion of the copies which had been seized at his printer's. D. 1870. Ilis son Albert, B. 1821, author of The Church and the Roman Empire in the Fourth Century (1856), was Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1873-1875. Brogue, ( brog ,) n. A brogan; a stout, heavy leather shoe, resembling in form the French sabot . Applied generally to the pedal coverings of the Scottish Highland ers, and the Irish peasantry. "I... put My clouted brogues from off my feet. "-Shaka. -A cant phrase for a corrupt dialect, or mode of pronunciation; as, spoken with the Irish brogue. "Or take, Hibernia, thy still ranker brogue ." - Lloyd. Broid'er, v. a. [Fr. broder, by transposition from bor der, to bind, to edge, to border; because the borders of garments are embroidered.] To ornament with needlework. By modern usage, EMBROIDER, q. v. "In mantles broider'd o'er with gorgeous pride."- Tickell. Broid'erer, n. One who embroiders. (0.) Broid'ery, n. Embroidery. (0.) "The golden broidery tender Milkah wove."- Tickell . Broil, n. [Fr. brouille , from brouiller , to mix; from It. brogliare, to confound.] A disturbance; agitation; brawl; a noisy quarrel; a confused tumult; as, their anger led to a broil. "Rude were their revels, and obscene their joys; The broils of drunkards, and the lust of boys."-Granville. (Cookery.) A piece of meat broiled over a fire; as, it will make a nice broil . -v. a. [Fr. brûler , for brusler , from braise , burning or glowing charcoal.] To agitate with heat; to dre or cook over coals or before the fire; as, to broil a beefsteak. "Some strip the skin, some portion out the spoil, Some on the fire the reeking entrails broil ."-Dryden. v. i. To be subjected to heat; to be greatly heated; to be cooked by being placed over a fire; as, it is a broil- ing day. "Where have you been broiling? Among th' crowd i' th' abbey, where a finger Could not be wedg'd in more." Shaks.