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BIOGRAPHICAL AND GFOGRAPHICAÏi INDEX, 149
Fontunay (Madame de) was divorced from her first husband, Darin de F'uuteuay, und married Jean Lambert Tallien, from whom she was also divorced in 1802 ; her maiden name was Cabar,
Francfort (German, Frankfurt-am-Main), formerly a free city of Germany, incorporated with Prussia in 1866; latitude 50.6 N., longitude 8.37 E.; the river Main divides it into two unequal parts; the poet ‘‘oethe was born there in 1749; Napoleon I. made itthe cap. of a Grand Duchy.
Freischwiller, à village and a fortress opposite F schoffen (which seé)
Frotté (the Count Louis), a Royalist oîMcer; emigrated in 1792 ; tried in vain to excite the Normans co r'ebellion, and was put to flight by Hoche; died 1800.
Furnes, the westernmost town of Belgium, prov. West Flanders.
Gensonné, one of the most eloquent of the Girondist Party (see Vergniaud); guillotined October 31, 1793.
Grandes-Indes or Indes Orientales, the common appellation for the two peninsulas nf South Asia separated by the Ganges, * l'Hindoustan” (Elir stan), anu “l'Indo-Chine” (Burma, Siam, Malay, &e.).
Granville, a French fortified seaport town, dep. Manch”, the army of the Vendénns (Royalists) attacked it in vain in 1795.
Grasse (the Count de), a French Admiral; died 1788. {
Grouchy (Emanuel, Marquis nf, was of a noble Norman family ; adopted the Republican ideas ; fought at the battles of Ulm (1805), Friedland (1807), Wagram (1809), la Moskowa (1812), Ligny (1815); not getting instructions in time, he did not take part in the Battle of Waterloo; died 1847.
unten, a distinguished Girondist (see Vergniaud); guiliotined July,
Guesclin (Bertrand du), a renowned French warrisr of the fourteenth century; drove the English frem Normandy, Guyenne, and Poitou; was twice made prisoner by them; he died at the siege of Château Neuf-de-Randon, dep. Lozère, 12 m. N.E. Mende.
Hautpoul (Jean-Joseph-Ange d'IHau'noul-Salette) took part in neariy all the important battles of the Republic; distinguished himself at Austerlitz; was kill.d at Eylau, 1807.
He ve, Hercules, the celebrated hero of antiquity ; Deïanira, his w1.2, gave him a garment steeped in the blood of the Centaur Nestus thinking to preserve her husband's love; the blood had been pe isoned (by the arrow with which Hercules had shot Nessus), and the hero died in fearful agony.
Hervilly (the Count d’}, a French Koyalist General ; fought in America; went to England ; was one of the chiefs of the Royalist expedition against Quiberon ; died in Lond ,a, 1795.
Hondschotte or Hondschoote, a village on the frontier of France, dep. Nord, 16 m. S.E. Duukergvrc ; the French General Houchard gained thoro à victory against Frevtag, September 8, 1795.
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Hôpital (Michel de 1”), Chancellor of France; endeavoured to secure toleration for the Protestants ; died in 1573.
Houchard (Jean Nicolas), a French General; gained a victory at Hondschoote, 1793; accused of not having punctually carried out he commands of the Committee of Public Safety; he was guillotined November 17, 1795.
Jaunaye (la), a castle in dep. Loiïre-Inférieure, S.W. Nantes.
Jemmapes, a town in Belgium, prov. Hainaut, W. of Mons; Dumouriez defeated the Austrians there, November 6, 1792, and brought about thereby the first conquest of Belgium.
Jersey, an island belonging to Great Britain in the English Channel, 15 m. W. of the coasi of France.
Jourdan (Jean Baptiste, Count oi), a French Geueral, born 1762 ; became master of Belgium by ‘he victory of Fleurus, June 26, 1794, driving the Allies beyond the Rhiue ; in 1804 was made Marshal of France by Napc..on; lost the battle of Vittoria, June 21, 1813; declared for Louis XVIIL, and was made Peer of France; dieï 1835.
Kayserlautern, a town in Rhenish Bavaria, Germany, near the river Lauter; the Duke of Brunswick defeated General Hoche there in 1793, and the French beat the Prussians in 1794.
Keliermann (François Christophe), born at Strassburg, 1735; commanded the Army of the Moselle, and gained over the Prussians, in 1792, with Dumouriez, at Valmy, dep. Marne, à celebrated victory which stoppea the progress of foreign invasion; Napoleon I. made him Senator, Marshal of Franre, and Duke of Valmy; he was favourable to the Bourbons, who made him Peer of France; he died in 1820.
Kléber (Jean Baptiste), a celebrated French General; fought in the Vendée, at Fleurus, on the Khine, 1795-6, w! - he was very successful ; distinguisheë himself in Egypt, and was assassinated by an Arab in 1800.
La Fayette (Gilbert de Motier, Marquis de), born in 1757 at Chavagnac, near Brioude, in Auvergne; wentto America in 1777, and took part ia the War of Independence; was made Commander-in-Chiet of the National Guard, 1789 ; sided with the Revolution, but protected the Royal Family from the outrages of the mob; opposed the extreme Party, the “Jacobins ;” escaped from Frar:e; was imprisoned by the Austrians; was again made Commauder-in- Chief of the National Guard in 1830, and accepted the Citizen- King, Louis Philippe ; when he died, in 1834, the American Congress went into mouruing for thirty days, and invited the citizeus to do the same.
La Ferté-Alais (or Aleps), a town in the dep. Seinc-et-Oise, E.N.E. Etampes.
Lahn (la), a German river, which joins the Rhine 4 m. S.E. Coblenz.
Lamartine (Alphonse Prat de), a great French poet and statesman died March 21, 1869.
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