ux pas;" and beats M. Robert again.--Moli[`e]re, _Le
M['e]decin Malgr['e] Lui_ (1666).

=Robert Kent.= Weak, vicious husband of Margaret Kent. Causes trouble all
his life and dies of yellow fever.--Ellen Olney Kirk, _The Story of
Margaret Kent_ (1886).

=Robert Macaire=, a bluff, free-living libertine. His accomplice is
Bertrand, a simpleton and a villain.--Daumier, _L'Auberge des Adrets_.

=Robert, duke of Albany=, brother of Robert III. of Scotland.--Sir W.
Scott, _Fair Maid of Perth_ (time, Henry IV.)[TN-130]

=Robert, duke of Normandy=, sold his dominions to Rufus for 10,000 marks,
to furnish him with ready money for the crusade, which he joined at the
head of 1000 heavy-armed horse and 1000 light-armed Normans.--Tasso,
_Jerusalem Delivered_ (1575).

=Robert III.= of Scotland, introduced by Sir W. Scott in the _Fair Maid of
Perth_ (time, Henry IV.).

=Robert le Diable=, son of Bertha and Bertramo. Bertha was the daughter of
Robert, duke of Normandy, and Bertramo was a fiend in the guise of a
knight. The opera shows the struggle in Robert between the virtue
inherited from his mother and the vice inherited from his father. His
father allures him to gamble till he loses everything, and then claims
his soul, but his foster-sister, Alice, counterplots the fiend, and
rescues Robert by reading to him his mother's will.--Meyerbeer, _Roberto
il Diavolo_ (libretto by Scribe, 1831).

[Asterism] Robert le Diable was the hero of an old French metrical
romance (thirteenth century). This romance in the next century was
thrown into prose. There is a miracle-play on the same subject.

=Robert of Paris= (_Count_), one of the crusading princes. The chief hero
of this novel is Hereward (3 _syl._), one of the Varangian guard of the
Emperor Alexius Comn[=e]nus. He and the count fight a single combat with
battle-axes; after which Hereward enlists under the count's banner, and
marries Bertha, also called Agatha.--Sir W. Scott, _Count Robert of
Paris_ (time, Rufus).

=Robert Penfold.= Hero of Foul Play, by Charles Reade. He is foully
wronged by Arthur Wardlaw, who forges his father's name on a note with
Penfold's endorsement. Penfold is found guilty and imprisoned. After his
release, he takes passage in the ship with Helen Rolleston, Wardlaw's
betrothed. Penfold also loves her, but hopelessly. They are wrecked and
cast upon an island in company, and for several months are the only
residents. After their rescue and