/ · 1894 Brewer’s · D · Diable (Le)
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Olivier Ledain, the tool of Louis XI., and once the king’s barber. So called because he was as much feared as his Satanic Majesty, and even more disliked. (Hanged 1484.)
Robert le Diable. Meyerbeer’s grand opera. (See Robert.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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