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LEFT ROGERS 93 ROHAN queline" (1813); "Human Life" (1819); (1834), and the more famous "Thesaurus and "Italy" (1822). He was the intimate of English Words and Phrases" (1852). He died in Malvern, Sept. 17, 1869. ROGGEVELD MOUNTAINS, a range in the S. W. division of Cape Colony, running N. W. to S. E. with an average height of 5,000 feet. ROGUE, an idle, slothful, inactive per- son: in the legal sense, a vagrant; a vagabond; a sturdy beggar. A knave; a rascal; a wilfully dishonest person; a cheat; a trickster. A name of slight ten- derness or endearment for one who is mischievous or frolicsome; as, a wicked rogue (in irony). ROHAN, HENRI DE, a French Prot- estant leader; born in Brittany, France, Aug. 25 (or 21), 1579. He is less re- markable for military achievements than for his four books of memoirs: the first three published under the title "Memoirs on Events in France from the Death of Henry the Great to June, 1629" (1644), covering the civil wars; and the fourth as "Memoirs and Letters on the War of the Valtelline" (1758), whither Richelieu had sent him to keep off the Imperialists and the Spanish. They rank among the finest of the memoirs written by the aris- tocracy of the 16th and 17th centuries. He also wrote "The Perfect Captain" (1636), a political tract; and others. He died April 13, 1638. ROHAN, LOUIS RENE EDOUARD, PRINCE DE, Cardinal-Archbishop of Strasburg; born in 1734. He became co- adjutor to his uncle in the see of Stras- burg, and afterward his successor; was sent in 1772 as ambassador to Vienna, where he displayed the most ridiculous luxury, but vainly sought to obtain the favor of the Empress Maria Theresa. As coadjutor he had ceremonially received the Princess Marie Antoinette on her en- trance into France. On the death of Louis XV. he returned to Paris, and for 10 years bent all his energies and efforts to winning the favor of the queen, but all in vain. Nevertheless he had mean- while become, in spite of his known pro- fligacy, Archbishop, Grand-Almoner, Car- dinal and Commendator of St. Vaast of Acres, one of the richest benefices in France. Associate of the quack Cag- liostro, and of the infamous Madame La- motte, he was duped by a forged letter with the signature of the queen, and in- duced to buy of Boehmer, the court jeweler, the now too celebrated diamond necklace, in the name of the queen. The necklace was placed in the hands of Madame Lamotte, forged autograph mes- sages from the queen followed, and an interview in the park of Versailles be- Cyc Vol 8 SAMUEL ROGERS friend of nearly all the literary men of his time in Great Britain. He died in London, Dec. 18, 1855. ROGERS, SAMUEL LYLE, an Amer- ican director of census, born in Frank- lin, N. C, in 1859. He was educated in Franklin High School. After some years in the retail merchandise business he was clerk of the Superior Court, Macon co., N. C, from 1882 to 1893, collector of in- ternal revenue for the western district of N. C. from 1895 to 1897; a member of the N. C. State Corporation Commis- sion from 1899 to 1911. In March, 1915, he was appointed director of census by President Wilson. He was a member of the American Statistical Association. ROGET, PETER MARK, an English physician; born in London, England, Jan. 18, 1779; was educated at Edinburgh; became physician to the Manchester In- firmary in 1804; and in 1808 settled in London, where he became physician to the Northern Dispensary; F. R. S. (1815), and afterward for over 20 years its secretary; Fullerian Professor of Physi- ology at the Royal Institution; and an original^ member of tke senate of the University of London. He wrote one of the "Bridgewater Treatises" — "On Ani- mal and Vegetable Physiology Considered with Reference to Natural Theology" G-