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 See also:

• JEAN

JEAN See also:

• FRANCOIS (1558-1614)

FRANCOIS See also:

• LOUIS JEAN FRANCOIS LAGRENEE (1724-1805)

LAGRENEE (1724-1805)  , See also:

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

French painter, was a See also:

• PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil of Carle See also:

• VANLOO, JOHN BAPTIST (1684-1745)

Vanloo . See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

Born at See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris on the 3oth of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1724, in 1755 he became a member of the Royal See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

Academy, presenting as his diploma picture the " See also:

• RAPE
• RAPE (from Lat. rapere, to seize)
• RAPE (Lat. rapum or rapa, turnip)

Rape of Deianira " (Louvre) . He visited St See also:

• PETERSBURG

Petersburg at the See also:

• CALL (from Anglo-Saxon ceallian, a common Teutonic word, cf. Dutch kallen, to talk or chatter)

call of the empress See also:

• ELIZABETH
• ELIZABETH (1533-1603)
• ELIZABETH (1596-1662)
• ELIZABETH (1635–1650)
• ELIZABETH [ AMELIE EUGENIE ] (1837—1898)
• ELIZABETH [1lisabeth Philippine Marie Helene of France] (1764—1794)
• ELIZABETH [PAULINE ELIZABETH OTTILIE LOUISE] (1843– )
• ELIZABETH [PETROVNA] (1709-1762), EMPRESS
• ELIZABETH, SAINT (1207-1231)

Elizabeth, and on his return was named in 1781 director of the French Academy at See also:

• ROME
• ROME (Roma)

Rome; he there painted the " See also:

• INDIAN

Indian Widow," one of his best-known See also:

• WORKS

works . In 1804 See also:

• NAPOLEON

Napoleon conferred on him the See also:

• CROSS

cross of the See also:

• LEGION (Lat. legio)

legion of See also:

• HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour, and on the 19th of See also:

• JUNE

June 1805 he died in the Louvre, of which he was honorary keeper . LA GUAIRA, or LA GUAYRA (sometimes LAGUAIRA, &c.), a See also:

• TOWN

town and See also:

• PORT

port of See also:

• VENEZUELA

Venezuela, in the Federal See also:

• DISTRICT

district, 23 M. by See also:

• RAIL

rail and 62 m. in a See also:

• DIRECT

direct See also:

• LINE

line N.'of See also:

• CARACAS

Caracas . Pop . (1904, estimate) 14,000 . It is situated between a precipitous See also:

• MOUNTAIN (0. Fr. montaigne; popular Lat. montanea, an adjectival form from the classical mons, montis, whence Eng. " mount," a form usually used along with the name of an individual mountain, e.g. Mt Everest)
• MOUNTAIN, THE (La Montagne)

mountain See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side and a broad, semicircular indentation of the See also:

• COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

coast line which forms the roadstead of the port . The anchorage was See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long considered one of the most dangerous on the Caribbean coast, and landing was attended with much danger . The See also:

• HARBOUR (from M.E. hereberge, here, an army; cf. Ger. Heer and -beorg, protection or shelter. Other early forms in English were herberwe and haiborow, as seen in various place names, such as Market Harborough.. The French auberge, an inn, derived through

harbour has been improved by the construction of a See also:

• CONCRETE
• CONCRETE (Lat. concretes, participle of concrescere, to grow together)

concrete See also:

• BREAKWATER

breakwater See also:

• RUNNING

running out from the eastern See also:

• SHORE

shore line 2044 ft., built up from an extreme See also:

• DEPTH

depth of 46 ft. or from an See also:

• AVERAGE

average depth of 291 ft., and rising 191 ft. above See also:

• SEA (in O. Eng. sae, a common Teutonic word; cf. Ger. See, Dutch Zee, &c.; the ultimate source is uncertain)
• SEA, COMMAND OF THE

sea-level . This encloses an See also:

• AREA

area of 761 acres, having an average depth of nearly 28 ft . The harbour is further improved by 187o ft. of concrete quays and 1397 ft. of retaining sea-See also:

• WALL (O. Eng. weal, weall, Mid. Eng. wal, wane, adapted from Lat. vallum, rampart; the original O. Eng. word for a wall was wag or tenth)
• WALL, RICHARD (1694-1778)

wall, with several piers (three covered) projecting into deep See also:

• WATER

water .

These works were executed by a See also:

• BRITISH

British See also:

• COMPANY

company, known as the La Guaira Harbour See also:

• CORPORATION (from Lat. corporare, to form into a body, corpus, corporis)

Corporation, Ltd., and were completed in 1891 at a cost of about one million See also:

• STERLING
• STERLING, ANTOINETTE (d. 1904)
• STERLING, JOHN (1806-1844)

sterling . The concession is for 99 years and the additional charges which the company is authorized to impose are necessarily heavy . These improvements and the restrictions placed upon the direct See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade between See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

West Indian ports and the See also:

• ORINOCO

Orinoco have greatly increased the See also:

• FOREIGN

foreign trade of La Guaira, which in 1903 was 52% of that of the four puertos habilitados of the See also:

• REPUBLIC (Lat. respublica, a commonweal or common-wealth)

republic . The See also:

• SHIPPING

shipping 1867-1877) . The first, second and third sections of this publication comprise respectively the papers communicated by him to the See also:

• ACADEMIES

Academies of Sciences of See also:

• TURIN

Turin, See also:

• BERLIN
• BERLIN, CONGRESS AND TREATY OF
• BERLIN, ISAIAH (1725–1799)

Berlin and Paris; the See also:

• FOURTH

fourth includes his See also:

• MISCELLANEOUS

miscellaneous contributions to other scientific collections, together with his additions to See also:

• EULER, LEONHARD (1707-1783)

Euler's See also:

• ALGEBRA (from the Arab. al-jebr wa'l-mugabala, transposition and removal [of terms of an equation], the name of a treatise by Mahommed ben Musa al-Khwarizmi)

Algebra, and his Lecons elementaires at the Ecole Normale in 1795 . See also:

• DELAMBRE, JEAN BAPTISTE JOSEPH (1749-1822)

Delambre's See also:

• NOTICE

notice of his See also:

• LIFE

life, extracted from the Mem. de l'Institut, 1812, is prefixed to the first See also:

• VOLUME

volume . Besides the See also:

• SEPARATE

separate works already named are See also:

• RESOLUTION

Resolution See also:

• DES

des equations numeriques (1798, 2nd ed., 18o8, 3rd ed., 1826), and Lecons sur le calcul des fonctions (1805, 2nd ed., 1806), designed as a commentary and supplement to the first See also:

• PART

part of the Theorie des fonctions . The first volume of the enlarged edition of the Mecanique appeared in 1811, the second, of which the revision was completed by MM See also:

• PRONY, GASPARD CLAIR FRANCOIS MARIE RICHE DE (1755-1839)

Prony and Binet, in 1815 . A third edition, in 2 vols., 4to, was issued in 1853-1855, and a second of the Theorie des fonctions in 1813 . See also J . J . Virey and Potel, Precis historique (1813); Th .

See also:

• THOMSON, JAMES (1822-1892)
• THOMSON, JAMES (1834-1882)
• THOMSON, JAMES (r700-1748)
• THOMSON, JOHN (1778-184o)
• THOMSON, JOSEPH (1858-1895)
• THOMSON, SIR CHARLES WYVILLE (1830-1882)
• THOMSON, THOMAS (1773-1852)
• THOMSON, WILLIAM (1819-189o)

Thomson's See also:

• ANNALS (Annales, from annus, a year)

Annals of See also:

• PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

Philosophy (1813-1820), vols. ii. and iv.; H . Suter, Geschichte der math . Wiss . (1873); E . See also:

• DUHRING, EUGEN KARL (1833-1901)

Duhring, Kritische Gesch. der allgemeinen Principien der Mechanik (1877, 2nd ed.) ; A . See also:

• GAUTIER
• GAUTIER, EMILE THEODORE LEON (1832-1897)
• GAUTIER, THEOPHILE (1811-1872)

Gautier, Essai historique sur le probleme des trois See also:

• CORPS (pronounced as in French, from which it is taken, being a late spelling of tors, from Lat. corpus, a body; cf. " corpse ")

corps (18j7); R . See also:

• GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
• GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
• GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
• GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
• GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
• GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
• GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
• GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
• GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
• GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
• GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
• GRANT, U
• GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)

Grant, See also:

• HISTORY

History of See also:

• PHYSICAL

Physical See also:

• ASTRONOMY (from Gr. &arpov, a star, and v ,usiv, to classify or arrange)

Astronomy, &c.; Pietro Cossali, Eloge (See also:

• PADUA (Lat. Patavium ; Ital. Padova)

Padua, 1813) ; L . See also:

• MARTINI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA (1706–1784)
• MARTINI, SIMONE (1283-1344)

Martini, Cenni biogrdfici (184o) ; Moniteur du 26 Fevrier (1814); W . See also:

• WHEWELL, WILLIAM (1794-1866)

Whewell, Hist. of the Inductive Sciences, ii. passim; J . Clerk See also:

• MAXWELL
• MAXWELL, JAMES CLERK (1831–1879)

Maxwell, See also:

• ELECTRICITY

Electricity and See also:

• MAGNETISM
• MAGNETISM, TERRESTRIAL

Magnetism, ii . 184; A . See also:

• BERRY, CHARLES ALBERT (1852-1899)
• BERRY, CHARLES FERDINAND
• BERRY, JOHN, DUKE OF (1340-1416)
• BERRY, or BERRI

Berry, See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

Short Hist. of See also:

• ASIR

Asir., p .

313; J . S . See also:

• BAILLY, JEAN SYLVAIN (1736-1793)

Bailly, Hist. de l'astr. moderne, iii . 156, 185, 232; J . C . See also:

• POGGENDORFF, JOHANN CHRISTIAN (1796-1877)

Poggendorff, Biog . Lit . Handworterbuch . (A . M . C.) See also:

• LAGRANGE, JOSEPH LOUIS (1736-1813)

LAGRANGE-See also:

• CHANCEL (through O. Fr. from Lat. plur. cancelli, dim. of cancer, grating, lattice, probably connected with an Indo-European root Kar-, to bend; cf. circus, curve, &c.)

CHANCEL [CHANCEL, See also:

• FRANCOIS (1558-1614)

FRANCOIS See also:

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

JOSEPH (1677-1758), French dramatist and satirist, was born at Perigueux on the 1st of See also:

• JANUARY

January 1677 . He was an extremely precocious boy, and at See also:

• BORDEAUX

Bordeaux, where he was educated, he produced a See also:

• PLAY

play when he was nine years old .

Five years later his See also:

• MOTHER

mother took him to Paris, where he found a See also:

• PATRON

patron in the princesse de See also:

• CONTI, NICOLO
• CONTI, PRINCES OF

Conti, to whom he dedicated his tragedy of Jugurtha or, as it was called later, Adherbal (1694) . See also:

• RACINE
• RACINE, JEAN (1639-1699)
• RACINE, LOUIS (1692-1763)

Racine had given him See also:

• ADVICE (Fr. avis, from Lat. ad, to, and visum, viewed)

advice and was See also:

• PRESENT

present at the first performance, although he had long lived in See also:

• COMPLETE

complete retirement . Other plays followed: Oreste et Pylade (1697), Meleagre (1699), See also:

• AMASIS

Amasis (1701), and Ino et Melicerte (1715) . Lagrange hardly realized the high hopes raised by his precocity, although his only serious See also:

• RIVAL

rival on the tragic See also:

• STAGE (Fr. 6/age; from Lat. stare, to stand)

stage was See also:

• CAMPISTRON, JEAN GALBERT DE (1656-1723)

Campistron, but he obtained high favour at See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court, becoming maitre d'hotel to the duchess of See also:

• ORLEANS
• ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
• ORLEANS, DUKES OF
• ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
• ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
• ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
• ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
• ORLEANS, LOUIS
• ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
• ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
• ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
• ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
• ORLEANS, PHILIP I
• ORLEANS, PHILIP II

Orleans . This prosperity ended with the publication in 1720 of his Philippiques, odes accusing the See also:

• REGENT (from Lat. regere, to rule)

regent, See also:

• PHILIP
• PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
• PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
• PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
• PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)

Philip, See also:

• DUKE (corresponding to Fr. duc, Ital. duca, Ger. Herzog)

duke of Orleans, of the most odious crimes . He might have escaped the consequences of this See also:

• LIBEL

libel but for the See also:

• BITTER, KARL THEODORE FRANCIS (1867– )

bitter enmity of a former patron, the duc de La Force . Lagrange found See also:

• SANCTUARY (from the late Lat. sanctuarium, a sacred place)

sanctuary at See also:

• AVIGNON

Avignon, but was enticed beyond the boundary of the papal See also:

• JURISDICTION
• JURISDICTION, CRIMINAL LAW, DIVORCE

jurisdiction, when he was arrested and sent as a prisoner to the isles of Sainte See also:

• MARGUERITE

Marguerite . He contrived, however, to See also:

• ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli

escape to See also:

• SARDINIA (Gr. 'IXs'o"uva, from a fancied resemblance to a footprint in its shape, Ital. Sardegna)

Sardinia and thence to See also:

• SPAIN
• SPAIN (Espana)

Spain and See also:

• HOLLAND
• HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
• HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
• HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
• HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
• HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
• HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
• HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
• HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
• HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART

Holland, where he produced his fourth and fifth Philippiques . On the See also:

• DEATH

death of the Regent he was able to return to See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France . He was part author of a Histoire de See also:

• PERIGORD

Perigord See also:

• LEFT

left unfinished, and made a further contribution to history, or perhaps, more exactly, to See also:

• ROMANCE

romance, in a See also:

• LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the alphabet; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

letter to See also:

• ELIE

Elie See also:

• FRERON, ELIE CATHERINE (1719-1776)
• FRERON, LOUIS MARIE STANISLAS (1754-1802)

Freron on the identity of the See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

Man with the See also:

• IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

Iron See also:

• MASK (Fr. masque, apparently from med. Lat. mascus, masca, spectre, through Ital. maschera, Span. mascara)

Mask . Lagrange's See also:

• FAMILY

family life was embittered by a long lawsuit against his son . He died at Perigueux at the end of December 1758 .

He had collected his own works (5 vols., 1758) some months before his death . His most famous See also:

• WORK

work, the Philippiques, was edited by M. de See also:

• LESCURE, LOUIS MARIE JOSEPH, MARQUIS DE (1766—1793)

Lescure in 1858, and a See also:

• SIXTH

sixth philippic by M . Diancourt in 1886 . LA GRANJA, or See also:

• SAN

SAN ILDEFONSO, a summer See also:

• PALACE (Lat. Palatium, the name given by Augustus to his residence on the Palatine Hill)

palace of the See also:

• KINGS, FIRST AND SECOND BOOKS OF

kings of Spain; on the See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

south-eastern border of the See also:

• PROVINCE
• PROVINCE (Lat. provincia; perhaps a contraction of providentia)

province of See also:

• SEGOVIA

Segovia, and on the western slopes of the Sierra de Guadarrama, 7 M. by road S.E. of the See also:

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

city of Segovia . The royal See also:

• ESTATE (through O. Fr. estat, mod. flat, from Lat. status, state, condition, position, stare, to stand)

estate is 3905 ft. above sea-level . The scenery of this region, especially in the See also:

• GORGE

gorge of the See also:

• RIVER

river Lozoya, with its See also:

• GRANITE (adapted from the Ital. granite, grained; Lat. granum, grain)

granite rocks, its dense See also:

• FOREST

forest of pines, firs and birches, and its red-tiled farms, more nearly resembles the See also:

• HIGHLANDS, THE

highlands of See also:

• NORTHERN

northern See also:

• EUROPE

Europe than any other part of Spain . La Granja has an almost alpine See also:

• CLIMATE

climate, with a clear, cool See also:

• ATMOSPHERE (Gr. fir µ6r, vapour; orkaipa, a sphere)

atmosphere and abundant See also:

• SUNSHINE

sunshine . Above the palace rise the wooded summits of the Guadarrama, culminating in the See also:

• PEAK, THE

peak of Pefialara (7891 ft.); in front of it the wide plains of Segovia extend northwards . The See also:

• VILLAGE

village of San Ildefonso, the See also:

• OLDEST

oldest part of the estate, was founded in 1450 by See also:

• HENRY
• HENRY (1129-1195)
• HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
• HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
• HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
• HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
• HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
• HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
• HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
• HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
• HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
• HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
• HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
• HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)

Henry IV., who built a See also:

• HUNTING (the verbal substantive from " hunt "; O. Eng. huntian, hunta; apparently connected with O. Eng. hentan, Gothic hinpan, to capture, O.H.G. hunda,booty)

hunting See also:

• LODGE
• LODGE, EDMUND (1756-1839)
• LODGE, H
• LODGE, HENRY CABOT (1850– )
• LODGE, SIR OLIVER JOSEPH (1851– )
• LODGE, THOMAS (c. 1558–1625)

lodge and See also:

• CHAPEL

chapel here . In entries of that See also:

• YEAR

year numbered 217, of which 203 entered with See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general See also:

• CARGO (Span. for " loading," from Lat. carries, car)

cargo and 14 with See also:

• COAL

coal exclusively . The exports included 152,625 bags See also:

• COFFEE (Fr: cafe, Ger. Kaffee)

coffee, 114,947 bags cacao and 152,891 hides . For 1905—1906 the imports at La Guaira were valued officially at £767,365 and the exports at £663,708 .

The city stands on sloping ground stretching along the circular coast line with a varying width of 130 to 330 ft. and having the See also:

• APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

appearance of an See also:

• AMPHITHEATRE (Gr. 441, around, and O&arpov, a place for spectators)

amphitheatre . The port improvements added 18 acres of reclaimed See also:

• LAND

land to La Guaira's area, and the removal of old shore batteries likewise increased its available breadth . In this narrow space is built the town, composed in See also:

• GREAT

great part of small, roughly-made cabins, and narrow, badly-paved streets, but with See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good business houses on its See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal See also:

• STREET
• STREET, GEORGE EDMUND (1824-1881)

street . From the mountain side, reddish-See also:

• BROWN
• BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
• BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
• BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
• BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
• BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
• BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
• BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
• BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
• BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
• BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
• BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
• BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
• BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
• BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
• BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
• BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
• BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
• BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
• BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
• BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
• BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
• BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)

brown in See also:

• COLOUR (Lat. color, connected with celare, to hide, the root meaning, therefore, being that of a covering)

colour and See also:

• BARE

bare of vegetation, the See also:

• SOLAR, SOLLER (Lat. solarium, Fr.• galetas, Ital. solaio)

solar See also:

• HEAT (0. E. haktu, which like " hot," Old Eng. hat, is from the Teutonic type haita, hit, to be hot; cf. Ger. hitze, heiss; Dutch, hitte, heet, &c.)

heat is reflected with tremendous force, the mean See also:

• ANNUAL

annual temperature being 84° F . The seaside towns of Maiquetia, 2 M . W. and Macuto, 3 M . E., which have better See also:

• CLIMATIC

climatic and sanitary conditions and are connected by a narrow-See also:

• GAUGE, or GAGE (Med. Lat. gauja, jaugia, Fr. jauge, perhaps connected with Fr. jale, a bowl, galon, gallon)

gauge railway, are the residences of many of the wealthier merchants of La Guaira . La Guaira was founded in 1588, was sacked by filibusters under Amias See also:

• PRESTON
• PRESTON, JOHN (1587-1628)

Preston in 1595, and by the French under See also:

• GRAMMONT (the Flemish name Gheeraardsbergen more clearly reveals its • etymology . Gerardi-mons)

Grammont in 1680, was destroyed by the great See also:

• EARTHQUAKE

earthquake of the 26th of See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1812, and suffered severely in the See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

war for See also:

• INDEPENDENCE
• INDEPENDENCE, DECLARATION OF
• INDEPENDENCE, WAR OF

independence . In 1903, pending the See also:

• SETTLEMENT
• SETTLEMENT, ACT OF

settlement of claims of Great See also:

• BRITAIN (Gr. Hperavuml vi7vot, Bperravia; Lat. Britannia, rarely Britannia)

Britain, See also:

• GERMANY
• GERMANY (Ger. Deutschland)

Germany and See also:

• ITALY
• ITALY (Italia)

Italy against Venezuela, La Guaira was blockaded by a British-See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German-See also:

• ITALIAN

Italian See also:

• FLEET

fleet . LA GUERONNIERE, 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 See also:

• ETIENNE, CHARLES GUILLAUME (1778-1845)

ETIENNE See also:

• ARTHUR (Fr. Arius)
• ARTHUR, CHESTER ALAN (1830 – 1886)

ARTHUR DUBREUIL HELION, VICOMTE DE (1816—1875), French politician, was the See also:

• SCION

scion of a See also:

• NOBLE, SIR ANDREW (1832- )

noble Poitevin family . Although by See also:

• BIRTH (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages from the root of the verb " to bear ")

birth and See also:

• EDUCATION

education attached to Legitimist principles, he became closely associated with Lamartine, to whose See also:

• ORGAN

organ, Le Bien Public, he was a principal contributor . After the stoppage of this See also:

• PAPER
• PAPER (Fr. papier, from Lat. papyrus)

paper he wrote for La Presse, and in 185o edited Le Pays .

A See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character See also:

• SKETCH (directly adapted from Dutch schets, which was taken from Ital. schizzo, a rough draft, Lat. schedium, something hastily made, Gr. oxE&os, sudden, off-hand, axeb6v, near by; Ger. Skizze and Fr. esquisse are from the same source)

sketch of Louis Napoleon in this See also:

• JOURNAL
• JOURNAL (through Fr. from late Lat. diurnalis, daily)

journal caused See also:

• DIFFERENCES, CALCULUS OF (Theory of Finite Differences)

differences with Lamartine, and La Gueronniere became more and more closely identified with the policy of the See also:

• PRINCE
• PRINCE (Lat. princeps, from primus capio, " I am the first to take "; Ital. principe, Fr. prince)

prince See also:

• PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

president . Under the See also:

• EMPIRE

Empire he was a member of the See also:

• COUNCIL (Lat. concilium, from cum, together, and the root cal, to call)

council of See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state (1853), senator (1861), See also:

• AMBASSADOR (also EMBASSADOR, the form sometimes still used in America; from the Fr. ambassadeur, with which compare Ital. ambasciatore and Span. embajador, all variants of the Med. Lat. ambassiator, ambassiator, ambasator, &c., derived from Med. Lat. amba

ambassador at See also:

• BRUSSELS (Fr. Bruxelles, Flem. Brussel)

Brussels (1868), and at See also:

• CONSTANTINOPLE
• CONSTANTINOPLE, COUNCILS OF

Constantinople (1870), and See also:

• GRAND

grand officer of the legion of honour (1866) . He died in Paris on the 23rd of December 1875 . Besides his Etudes el portraits politiques contemporains (1856) his most important works are those on the foreign policy of the Empire: La France, Rome et See also:

• ITALIC

Italic (1851), L' Abandon de Rome (1862), De la politique interieure et exterieure de la France (1862) . His See also:

• ELDER (0. Eng. ellarn; Ger. Holunder; Fr. sureau)
• ELDER (Gr. 1rpev(3iTepos)

elder See also:

• BROTHER

brother, See also:

• ALFRED

ALFRED DUBREUIL HELION, See also:

• COMTE, AUGUSTE [ISIDORE AUGUSTE MARIE FRANCOIS XAVIER] (1798-1857)

Comte de La Gueronniere (1810-1884), who remained faithful to the Legitimist party, was also a well-known writer and journalist . He was consistent in his opposition to the See also:

• JULY

July See also:

• MONARCHY (Fr. monarchic, from Lat. monarchia, Gr. uovapXia, rule of one, µbvos, alone, apXi7, rule)

Monarchy and the Empire, but in a See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of books on the crisis of 1870—1871 showed a more favourable attitude to the Republic .