This page gives an overview of all articles in the 1911 Brittanica which are alphabetized under Ves to Vil.
He was then director of the college of Senlis, where he composed his Esprit de la Ligue ou histoire politique des troubles de la Fronde pendant le X VI e et le X Vil e siecles (1767).
Entering into an alliance with Antiochus VIL, they assailed the Parthian Empire.
A courtmartial condemned him in contumaciam to death by "garote vil," and he had to hide in the house of a friend until he escaped to France.
They lost nearly all their outlying possessions, but still made head against the generals of Charles VIL in these two regions.
