King of France, surnamed Le Sage ("The Wise"), and Le Devot ("The Devout"), succeeded his father Hugues Capet in A.D. 996, and died in 1031. (See FRANCE.)

name of three kings of Scotland. Robert I., or "The Bruce," was born in 1274, was crowned at Scone in 1306, and died in 1329. (See BRUCE.) Robert II., the first of the Stuart dynasty, and the grandson of the preceding, was born in 1316, succeeded David II. in 1371, and died in 1390. Robert III., whose original name was John, succeeded his father Robert II. in 1390, and died in 1400. (See SCOTLAND.)

Robert of Gloucester, a monk who flourished in the latter half of the thirteenth century, left behind him a rhyming chronicle. The subject is the history of England from the time of Brutus to the close of the reign of Henry III. The facts are chiefly taken from Geoffrey of Monmouth, and other old annalists. The verse consists of long lines of fourteen syllables, and abounds in Saxonisms. There is little of art or of spirit in the execution. The rhyme seems to cramp the verse, and to make it limp along at a duller pace than even ordinary prose. The Chronicle of Robert of Gloucester was printed by Hearne, in 2 vols. 8vo, Oxford, 1724, and reprinted at London in 1810.

Robert Léopold, a distinguished French painter, was born in 1794, at Chaux-de-Fonds in Neuchâtel. From his earliest years a strong love for design characterized him. The commercial profession, to which he was apprenticed, was given up in disgust. He was not content until he was sent to Paris to study art. There he laboured with unrewarded assiduity under Girardet the engraver and David the painter. Nor did his ardour abate when he found himself a poor and solitary student at Rome. The prosecution of his art was the only subject that he allowed to engross his mind. He patiently employed all the advantages of the place to perfect himself both in theory and in execution. He especially laboured to catch the traits of Italian scenery, life, and character. The consequence of Robertson's devoted efforts was, that the connoisseurs in Paris were soon charmed with the fresh and faithful sketches which Robertson sent home to the yearly exhibitions in the salon of the Louvre. Among others, his "Neapolitan Improvisator," in 1824; his "Madonna dell' Arco," in 1827; and his "Reapers," in 1831, continued to increase his reputation. He had attained the highest place in his own particular walk, and his latest work, "The Fishermen," was exciting great admiration in Paris, when the intelligence arrived that he had committed suicide at Venice in a fit of melancholy on the 20th March 1833.