Marie Louise Mignot Marie Louise Mignot Marie Louise Mignot (1712–1790) was a French literary figure. She was the daughter of Voltaire's sister, Catherine Arouet (1686–1726) and her husband Pierre-François Mignot (d. 1737). After the death of her widowed father in 1737, Voltaire provided her with a dowry and she married army supply officer Nicolas-Charles Denis, giving rise to her married name of Madame Denis. After her husband's premature death in 1744, she was taken in by Voltaire and became his housekeeper, hostess and companion. She also adopted his protégée Reine Philiberte de Varicourt when the latter's marriage to the marquis de Villette foundered
Recruiting Act 1778 city and liberties of Westminster, and such parts of the County of Middlesex as are within the Bills of Mortality". The chief advantage of this Act was in the number of volunteers brought in under the apprehension of impressment. The Act received royal assent on 28 May 1778. It was repealed by section 1 of the Recruiting Act 1779 and replaced by that Act. Recruiting Act 1778 The Recruiting Act 1778 (18 Geo.3 c.53) is an Act of Parliament passed by the Parliament of Great Britain. It was a press Act "for the more easy and better recruiting of his