MARC See also:

• THEODORE
• THEODORE (602-690)
• THEODORE (Fedor) GRIGORIEVICH ORLOV, COUNT (1741–1796)
• THEODORE (Rus. Fedor, or Feodor)

THEODORE See also:

• MARC THEODORE BOURRIT (1739-1819)

BOURRIT (1739-1819)  , Swiss traveller and writer, came of a See also:

• FAMILY

family which was of See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French origin but.had taken See also:

• REFUGE

refuge at See also:

• GENEVA
• GENEVA (Fr. Geneve, Ger. Genf, Ital. Ginevra, Late Lat. Gebenna, though Genava in good Latin)
• GENEVA, LAKE OF

Geneva for reasons connected with See also:

• RELIGION
• RELIGION, FOLKLORE, CUSTOM

religion . His See also:

• FATHER

father was a watchmaker there, and he himself was educated in his native See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city . He was a See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good artist and etcher, and also a pastor, so that by See also:

• REASON (Lat. ratio, through French raison)

reason of his See also:

• FINE

fine See also:

• VOICE (Fr. voix, from Lat. vox)

voice and love of See also:

• MUSIC

music he was made (1768) See also:

• PRECENTOR (Late Lat. praecentor, from praecipere, to sing before, lead in singing)

precentor of the See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

church of St See also:

• PETER
• PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
• PETER (PEDRO)
• PETER, EPISTLES OF
• PETER, ST

Peter (the former See also:

• CATHEDRAL

cathedral) at Geneva . This See also:

• POST

post enabled him to devote himself to the exploration of the See also:

• ALPS

Alps, for which he had conceived a See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• PASSION (post-classical Lat. passio, formed from pati, passus, to suffer, endure)

passion ever since an ascent (1761) of the Voirons, near Geneva . In 1775 he made the first ascent of the Buet (10,201 ft.) by the now usual route from the See also:

• PIERRE

Pierre a See also:

• BERARD, JOSEPH FREDERIC (1789-1828)

Berard, on which the great See also:

• FLAT (a modification of O. Eng. flet, an obsolete word of Teutonic origin, meaning the ground beneath the feet)

flat See also:

• ROCK
• ROCK (O.Fr. rake, Sp. rota, Ital. rocca; possibly from a Lat. form rupica, from rupes, rock)
• ROCK, DANIEL (1799–187t)

rock known as the Table au Chantre still preserves his memory . In 1784–1785 he was the first traveller to See also:

• ATTEMPT (Lat. adtemptare, attentare, to try)

attempt the ascent of Mont See also:

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

Blanc (not conquered till 1786), but neither then nor later (1788) did he succeed in reaching its See also:

• SUMMIT

summit . On the other See also:

• HAND
• HAND (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Hand, Goth. handus)
• HAND, FERDINAND GOTTHELF (1786-185r)

hand he reopened (1787) the route over the See also:

• COL
• COL (Fr. for " neck," Lat. collum)

Col du Geant (11,o6o ft.), which had fallen into oblivion, and travelled also among the mountains of the See also:

• VALAIS (Ger. Wallis, Ital. Vallese)

Valais, of the Bernese Oberland, &c . He received a See also:

• PENSION (Lat. pensio, a payment, from pendere, to weigh, to pay)

pension from See also:

• LOUIS
• LOUIS (804–876)
• LOUIS (893–911)
• LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
• LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian

Louis XVI., and was named the historiographe See also:

• DES

des Alpes by the See also:

• EMPEROR (Fr. empereur, from the Lat. imperator)

emperor See also:

• JOSEPH
• JOSEPH, COMTE DE (1785-1870)
• JOSEPH, FATHER (FRANCOIS LECLERC DU TREMBLAY) (1577-1638)

Joseph II., who visited him at Geneva . His last visit to See also:

• CHAMONIX

Chamonix was in 1812 . His writings are composed in a naive, sentimental and rather pompous See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style, but breathe throughout a most passionate love for the Alps, as wonders of nature, and not as See also:

• OBJECTS

objects of scientific study, His See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

• WORKS

works are the Description des glacieres de Savoye, 1773 (See also:

• ENGLISH

English See also:

• TRANSLATION

translation, See also:

• NORWICH
• NORWICH, GEORGE GORING, EARL OF (1583?-1663)

Norwich, 1775-1776), the Description des Alpes pennines et rhetiennes (2 vols., 1781) (reprinted in 1783 under the See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title of Nouvelle Description des vallees de glace, and in 1785, with additions, in 3 vols., under the name of Nouvelle Description des glacieres), and the Descriptions des cols ou passages des Alpes, (2 vols., 1803), while his Itineraire de Geneve, See also:

• LAUSANNE

Lausanne et Ckamouni, first published in 1791, went through several See also:

• EDITIONS

editions in his lifetime . (W . A .

B .