Pogonologia, or, a philosophical and historical essay on beards / [By J.A.D.] Translated from the French [by E. Drewe?].

  • Jacques-Antoine Dulaure
Date:
1786
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    whifkers, as likewife all the young people, who don’t think thcmfelves fit to wear a whole beard ’till the age of maturity, and this is what they commonly call becoming prudent. Several great men have honoured them- felves with the furname of Bearded. The emperor Conftantine is diftinguifhed by the epithet of Pogonate, which fignifies the Bearded, In the time of the crufades, we find there was a Geffrey the Bearded: Baldwin IV. earl of Flanders, was fur- namedand, in the il- luflrious houfe of Montmorenci, there was a famous Bouchard^ who took a pride in the furname of Bearded: he was al- ways the declared enemy of the monks, without doubt becaufe of their being fhaved.:]: In the tenth century, we find, that king Robert (of France) the rival of Charles the Simple, was as famous for his ex- ploits as for his long white beard. In order that it might be more confpicuous to the foldiers, when he was in the field, he * This Baldwin, In a charter of Robert king of France, In the year 1023, is called Honejla Barba. J The fingular quarrel which he had with the monks of St. Denis is given at length in my Defeription des environs de Paris, under the article IJJe St, Denis. This quarrel was the occafion of this family’s changing their name from Bouchard Ko Montmorenci.