See also:

• LATACUNGA (LLACTACUNGA, or, in local parlance, TACUNGA)

LATACUNGA (LLACTACUNGA, or, in See also:

• LOCAL

local parlance, TACUNGA)  , a See also:

• PLATEAU (a French term, older platel, for a flat piece of wood, metal, &c., from plat, flat)
• PLATEAU, JOSEPH ANTOINE FERDINAND (1801-1883)

plateau See also:

• TOWN

town of See also:

• ECUADOR (officially La Republica del Ecuador)

Ecuador, See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital of the See also:

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

province of See also:

• LEON
• LEON, LUIS PONCE DE (1527-1591)
• LEON, MOSES BEN SI
• LEON, or LEON DE LAS ALDAMAS

Leon, 46 m . S. of See also:

• QUITO

Quito, near the confluence of the Alagues and Cutuchi to See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form the Patate. the headstream of the Pastaza . Pop . (1900, estimate) 12,000, largely See also:

• INDIAN

Indian . See also:

• LATACUNGA (LLACTACUNGA, or, in local parlance, TACUNGA)

Latacunga stands on the old road between See also:

• GUAYAQUIL, or SANTIAGO DE GUAYAQUIL

Guayaquil and Quito and has a station on the railway between those cities . It is 9141 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; and its See also:

• CLIMATE

climate is See also:

• COLD (in O. Eng. cald and ceald, a word coming ultimately from a root cognate with the Lat. gelu, gelidus, and common in the Teutonic languages, which usually have two distinct forms for the substantive and the adjective, cf. Ger. Kolte, kalt, Dutch koude

cold and unpleasant, owing to the winds from the neighbouring snowclad heights, and the barren, See also:

• PUMICE (Lat. purnex, spumex, spuma, froth)

pumice-covered table-See also:

• LAND

land on which it stands . See also:

• COTOPAXI

Cotopaxi is only 25 M. distant, and the town has suffered repeatedly from eruptions . Founded in 1534, it was four times destroyed by earthquakes between 1698 and 1798 . The neighbouring ruins of an older native town are said to date from the Incas . LA See also:

• TAILLE (from Fr. tailler, to cut or divide; late Lat. taliare, said to come from talia, talea)

TAILLE, See also:

• JEAN

JEAN DE (c . 1540-1608), See also:

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

French poet and dramatist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Bondaroy . He studied the humanities in 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 under Muret, and See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law at 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 under See also:

• ANNE (1665-1714)
• ANNE (1693-1740)

Anne de Bourg .

He began his career as a Huguenot, but afterwards adopted a mild Catholicism . He was wounded at the See also:

• BATTLE

battle of Arnay-ie Duc in 1570, and retired to his See also:

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

estate at Bondaroy, where he wrote a See also:

• POLITICAL

political pamphlet entitled Histoire abregee See also:

• DES

des singeries de la ligue, often published with the See also:

• SATIRE (Lat. satira, satura; see below)

Satire Menippee . His See also:

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

chief poem is a satire on the follies of 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 See also:

• LIFE

life, Le Courtisan retire; he also wrote a political poem, Le See also:

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

Prince necessaire . But his fame rests on his achievements in See also:

• DRAMA (literally "action," from Gr. Snail, act or do)

drama . In 1572 appeared the tragedy of Said le furieux, with a See also:

• PREFACE (Med. Lat. prefatia, for classical praefatio, praefari, to speak beforehand)

preface on L'See also:

• ART

Art de la tragedie . Like See also:

• JODELLE, ETIENNE

Jodelle, See also:

• GREVIN, JACQUES (c.1539—1570)

Grevin, La Peruse and their followers, he wrote, not for the See also:

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

general public to which the mysteries and farces had addressed themselves, but for the limited See also:

• AUDIENCE (from Lat. audire, to hear)

audience of a lettered See also:

• ARISTOCRACY (Gr. apuvror, best; «paria, government)

aristocracy . He therefore depreciated the native drama and insisted on the Senecan See also:

• MODEL (0. Fr. modelle, mod. modele; It. modello, pattern, mould; from Lat. modus, measure, standard)

model . In his preface La Taille enunciates the unities of See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place, See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time and See also:

• ACTION

action; he maintains that each See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act should have a unity of its own and that the scenes composing it should be continuous; he See also:

• OBJECTS

objects to deaths on the See also:

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

stage on the ground that the See also:

• REPRESENTATION

representation is unconvincing, and he requires as subject of the tragedy an incident really terrible, See also:

• DEVELOPED

developed, if possible, by elaborate intrigue . He criticizes e.g. the subject of the See also:

• SACRIFICE (from Lat. sacrificium; sacer, holy, and facere, to make)

sacrifice of See also:

• ABRAHAM, or ABRAM (Hebrew for " father is high ")

Abraham, chosen by See also:

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

Theodore de Beze for his tragedy (1551), as unsuitable because " pity and terror " are evoked from the spectators without real cause . If in Said le furieux he did not completely carry out his own convictions he developed his See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal See also:

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

character with See also:

• GREAT

great ability . A second tragedy, La See also:

• FAMINE (Lat. fames, hunger)

Famine ou See also:

• LES

les Gabeonites (1573), is inferior in construction, but is redeemed by the character of Rizpah . He was also the author of two comedies, Le Negromant-LA TENS 239 and Les Corrivaux, both written apparently by 1562 but not published until 1573 .

Les Corrivaux is remarkable for its colloquial See also:

• PROSE

prose See also:

• DIALOGUE

dialogue, which foreshadows the excellence of later French See also:

• COMEDY

comedy . His See also:

• BROTHER

brother, JACQUES DE LA TAILLE (1542-1562), composed a number of tragedies, of which La Mort de Daire and La Mort d'See also:

• ALEXANDRE, NOEL (NATALIS ALEXANDER) (1639-1724)

Alexandre (both published in 1573) are the chief . He is best known by his Maniere de faire des vers en frangais comme en grec et en latin, an See also:

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

attempt to regulate French See also:

• VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse by quantity . He died of See also:

• PLAGUE (in Gr. Xotµos; in Lat. pestis, pestilentia)

plague at the See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of 20 . His Poesies diverses were published in 1572 . The See also:

• WORKS

works of Jean de la Taille were edited by Rene de Maulde (4 vols., 1878-1882) . See also E . See also:

• FAGUET, EMILE (1847- )

Faguet, La Tragedie franQaise an X VI.' siecle (1883) .