BEJAN (Fr. bejaune, from

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• BEE (Sanskrit blza, AS. ben, Lat. apis)

bee jaune, " yellow

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• BEAK (early forms beke and becke, from Fr. bec, late Lat. beccus, supposed to be a Gaulish word; the Celtic bec and beq, however, are taken from the English)

beak," in allusion to unfledged birds; the

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• EQUIVALENT

equivalent to Ger. Gelbschnabel, Fr.

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• BLANC, (JEAN JOSEPH CHARLES) LOUIS (1811-1882)
• BLANC, MONT

blanc-bec, a greenhorn)  , a term for freshmen, or undergraduates of the first year, in the Scottish universities . The phrase was introduced from the French universities, where the levying of bejaunium" footing-money " had been prohibited by the statutes of the university of Orleans in 1365 and by those of Toulouse in 1401 . In 1493 the election of an Abbas Bejanorum (Abbot of the Freshmen) was forbidden in the university of Paris . In the German and Austrian universities the freshman was called beanus . In Germany the freshman was anciently called a Pennal (from Med . Lat. pennale, a box for pens), in allusion to the fact that the newly-arrived student had to carry such for the older pupils . Afterwards Fuchs (fox) was substituted for Fennel, and then Goldfuchs, because he is supposed still to have a few gold coins from home . B$JART, the name of several French actors, children of Marie Herve and Joseph Bejart (d . 1643), the holder of a small government post . The family—there were eleven children—was very poor and lived in the Marais, then the theatrical quarter of Paris . One of the sons, JOSEPH BEJART (C.1617-1659), was a strolling player and later a member of Moliere's first company (1'Illustre Theatre), accompanied him in his theatrical wanderings, and was with him when he returned permanently to Paris, dying soon after . He created the parts of Lelie in L'Elourdie, and Eraste in Le Depit amoureux, His brother Louis BEJART (c .

1630-1678) was also in Moliere's company during the last years of its travels . He created many parts in his brother-in-

law's plays—Valere in Le Depit amoureux, Dubois in Le Misanthrope, Alcantor in Le Mariage force, and Don Luis in Le Festin de Pierre—and was an actor of varied talents . In consequence of a wound received when interfering in a street brawl, he became lame and retired with a pension—the first ever granted by the company to a comedian—in 1670 . The more famous members of the family were two sisters .