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Ῥ, ν.]. 5. PLANCHE(Toseph)[1;62—1853]; has left a Greek dictionary which enjoyed considerable reputation when first published, although it has now long been superseded.

L ro. LUCE DE LANCIVAL (Jean Charles Jullien) [r764—1810]. His most celebrated work is a poem entitled οὐ à Scyros.

1. 13. concours général...the annual competition between all the Paris colleges for prizes on literary and scientific subjects.

- L16. FONTANES (Louis Marcellin de) [175 7—1821], president of the Corps Lépislatif (1804),grand master ofthe university (1808—1815). After having been one of the most obsequious flatterers of Napoleon, he allied himself to the cause of the Bourbons, and was created a peer of France by Louis XVIII His works, both in prose and in poetry, are remarkable for the extreme polish of the style, brit they are deficient in vigour. The best of his poems eutitled Ze Your des Morts is an imitation of Gray’s EÆElegy written in a country churchyzrd; his Eloge de Washington, pronounced in 1800 at ἃ military ceremony in the Hôtel des Invalides, at-. tracted the notice of Bonaparte, then first consul. ‘M. de Fontanes prononça en un langage étudié, mais superbe, l'éloge funèbre du héros de l'Amérique " (Thiers).

1. 26. MONTAIGNE- Michel de) [1533—1592], the celebrated author of the “ΖΦ ταῖς."

l'Académie Française. The French Academy was founded by Cardinal Richelieu in 1635; it consists of forty members.

L 29. FABRE (Marie Joseph Victorin) [1785—1831], a second-rate littérateur (Éoge de Boileau, 1805; Éloge de P, Corneille, 1808; Tableau Littéraire du X VIII siècle, 1810, etc. ).

Droz (François Xavier Joseph) [1773---1850], “écrivain estimable,” says M. Bouillet. His best work is a history of the reign of Louis XVI. (3 vols. 8, 1839—1842), in which he shews that the French Revolution might have been prevented, or guided into the channel of moderate liberalism.

JAY (Antoine) [1770—1854], a journalist on the liberal side. The boldness of his attacks against the Bourbons in ἐς Afinerve (1818) sent him to prison. He wrote a history of Cardinal Richelieu (1815, 2 vols. 8°).

L 33. SUARD (Jean Baptiste Antoine) [1734—1810], known especially as the translator of Robertson’s historical works; a large number of news-

paper articles, biographical notices, and #oges composed by him, have been reprinted in a collected form under the title Mélarges de littérature (5 vols. 8°, r803—5).

1.34 NARBONNE (Louis de) [1755—1813], minister of war under Louis XVI. (December, 1791—March, 1792), aide-de-camp of Napoleon, and ambassador at Vienna; took part in the congress of Prague, and in the negociations at Torgau. See M. Villemain’s interesting notice of himinthe Souvenirs contemporains d'histoire et de littérature, Series x.

CONSTANT DE REBECQUE (Henri-Benjamin) [1767—1830], distinguished as a politician and a writer, was on intimate terms with Madame de Staël and all the leaders of the liberal side. Has left ἃ great number of political érockures and other works. (De La Reélision, 1824—31, 5 vols. 85; du Polythéisme Romain, 1833, 2 vols. 89), The most celebrated of his compositions is a novel entitled Adolphe, 1816, 8°, “ Sèche analyse du cœur humain dans une situation donnée” (Haag). See an excellent article on him in Ze France Protestante, vol. 111. ; also Sainte- Beuve’s Causeries du Lundi and Portraits contemporains.

. P.vi L23. LA SORBONKNE, originally a college founded in Paris by Robert de Sorbon [r201— 1274], now the building where the professors of the Paris facultés give their lectures.

L24 M. GuizoT (François-Pierre-Guillaume) [1787—1874 L had been appointed lecturer on modern history in 1812.

1 39. Louis XVIII. (Louis Stanisles Xavier, comte de Provence) [x775—1824], brother of Louis XVI. and of Charles X,

L 42 DECAZES (Elie, duke) [1780—1860], minister of the interior during the reign of Louis XVIII. (1818—r820), ambassador in England (1820— 21), peer of France; a liberal and accomplished statesman.

P. vii. L 3. ROGER (François) [1776—1842]has written a few amusing comedies.

1 5. DACIER (Bon Joseph) [1742—1833], distinguished as a scholar and an archæologist. Published a translation of Ælian and of Xenophon's Cyropædia. |

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1, 8 Mat (Angelo) [1782---1854], cardinal (1838), librarian at the Vatican, and known throughout Europe for his palæographic studies and classical publications.

L 16. VILLÈLE (Jean Baptiste Séraphin Joseph, count de) [1773— 1854} one of the cleverest but most unpopular ministers during the Restoration. Was president of the council from 1822 till 1828, when the liberals having obtained a majority in the elections, the cabinet was compelled to resign. |

L 19. LACRETELLE (Jean Charles Dominique) [1766—1855] has left several historical works of considerable merit. ‘‘Il racontait,” says M. Vinet, ‘‘ avec une élégance animée l’histoire du dix-huitième siècle, celle du seizième, et les annales de-la révolution à peine endormie dans les bras d’un grand capitaine.”

L 20. CHATEAUBRIAND (François Auguste, viscount) [1768—1848], the greatest French prose-writer of the present century. His Afa/a (1801), Le Génie du Christianisme (1807), Les Martyrs (1809), Mémoires d'outre-tombe (1839 —50), are full of beauties of the highest order.

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CHARLES X. (Charles Philippe, count d'Artois) [1757—1836], King of France in 1824, dethroned in 1830, was the fourth son of the Dauphin Louis, son of Louis XV.

1.24. Cousin (Victor)[1792—1867], equally celebrated às a metaphysician and as a writer, was the founder of the French eclectic school of philosophy. The list of his numerous works includes contributions to history (La jeunesse de Madame de Longueville, Madame de Sablé, Madane de Chevreuse, etc.), general literature (Dx Vrai, du Beau, du Bien, etc.), and classical lore (46e/ardi opera, etc.), besides editions of Plato and Descartes, lectures on metaphysical science, etc.

1,25. LE GLOBE wasa liberal newspaper founded in 1824 by Messrs Dubois, Duvergier de Hauranne, and other distinguished members of the opposition. From being a docfrinaire periodical, it soon drifted into Saint-Simonism under the influence of M. Pierre Leroux.

1.28. ÉVREUX (in L. £broice, Mediolanum Auletiorum), anciently the capital of the Axrci-Eburovices. The department of which it is the chief town takes its name from the river Eure.

L 30. Z’Adresse des 221. In consequence of the appointment of an ultra-royalist ministry under the presidency of Prince Polignac (Nov. 1829), the 221 members of the opposition in the chamber of deputies voted an address to the king (Märch 16, 1830) strongly condemning the course adopted by the government. |

L 37. ,LouIs PHILIPPE, king of the French (1773--- 1850), son of Philippe-Ægalité, duke d'Orléans. |