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JOSEPH XAVIER SAINTINE (1798-1865)

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JOSEPH See also:XAVIER See also:SAINTINE (1798-1865)  , See also:French novelist and dramatist, whose real surname was See also:BONIFACE, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the loth of See also:July 1798 . In 1823 he produced a See also:volume of See also:poetry in the manner of the Romanticists, entitled Poemes, odes, epitres . In 1836 appeared Picciola, the See also:story of the See also:comte de Charney, a See also:political prisoner in See also:Piedmont, whose See also:reason was saved by his cult of a tiny See also:flower growing between the paving stones of his See also:prison yard . This story is a masterpiece of the sentimental See also:kind, and has been translated into many See also:European See also:languages . He produced many other novels, none of striking individuality with the exception of Seul (1857), which purported to be the See also:authentic See also:record of See also:Alexander See also:Selkirk on his See also:desert See also:island . See also:Saintine was a prolific dramatist, and collaborated in some See also:hundred pieces with See also:Scribe and others, usually under the name of See also:Xavier . He died on the 21st of See also:January 1865 . ST INGBERT, a See also:town of See also:Germany, in the See also:kingdom of See also:Bavaria on the Rohrbach, 14 M. by See also:rail W. of See also:Zweibrucken . Pop . (1905) 15,521 . It has See also:coal-mines and manufactures of See also:glass and machinery . There are also large See also:iron and See also:steel See also:works in the town, and other See also:industries are the making of See also:powder, See also:leather, cigars, See also:soap and See also:cotton .

St Ingbert is named after the Irish See also:

saint, St Ingobert, and belonged for 300 years to the electorate of See also:Trier . ST IVES, a See also:market town, municipal See also:borough and seaport in the St Ives See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Cornwall, See also:England, to m . N.N.E. of See also:Penzance, on a See also:branch of the See also:Great Western railway . Pop . (19o1) 6699 . It lies near the W. See also:horn of St Ives See also:Bay on the N. See also:coast . The older streets near the See also:harbour are narrow and irregular, but on the upper slopes there are See also:modern terraces with See also:good houses . The small harbour, protected by a See also:breakwater, originally built by See also:John See also:Smeaton in 1767, has suffered from the See also:accumulation of See also:sand, and at the lowest tides is dry . The See also:fisheries for See also:pilchard, See also:herring and See also:mackerel are important . See also:Boat-See also:building and See also:sail-making are carried on . An See also:eminence See also:south of the town is marked by a See also:granite See also:monument erected in 1782 by John Knill, a native of the town, who intended to be buried here; to maintain a quinquennial celebration on the spot he bequeathed See also:property to the town authorities . The borough is under a See also:mayor, 4 aldermen and 12 councillors .

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Area, 1890 acres . The town takes name from St Hya, or Ia, an Irish virgin and See also:martyr, who is said to have accompanied St Piran on his missionary See also:journey to Cornwall in the 5th See also:century, and to have landed near this See also:place . The Patent Rolls disclose an almost continuous See also:series of trials for piracy and See also:plunder by St Ives sailors from the beginning of the 14th to the end of the 16th century . A See also:mere chapelry of Lelant and the less important member of the distant See also:manor of Ludgvan Leaze, which in Domesday See also:Book appears as Luduam, it had no fostering See also:hand to See also:minister to its growth . In See also:order to See also:augment the See also:influence of the Tudors in the See also:House of See also:Commons, See also:Philip and See also:Mary in 1558 invested it with the See also:privilege of returning 2 members . Its affairs were at that See also:time administered by a headwarden, who after 1598 appears under the name of portreeve, 12 See also:chief burgesses and 24 See also:ordinary burgesses . The portreeve was elected by the 24; the 12 by the chief inhabitants . This See also:body had See also:control over the fishing, the harbour and harbour dues, the fabric of the See also:church, sanitation and the poor . In 1639 a See also:charter of See also:incorporation was granted under which the portreeve became mayor, the 12 became aldermen, and the 24 were styled burgesses . See also:Pro-See also:vision was made for four fairs and for markets on Wednesdays and Saturdays, also for a See also:grammar school . This charter was surrendered to See also:Charles II. and a new one granted in 1685, the latter reducing the number of aldermen to to and of burgesses also to to . It ratified the parliamentary See also:franchise and the fairs and markets, and provided a See also:court of See also:pie-powder; it also contained a clause safeguarding the rights of the See also:marquess of See also:Winchester, See also:lord of the manor of Ludgvan Leaze and Porthia .

In 1835 a mayor, 4 aldermen and 12 councillors were invested with the See also:

administration of the borough . In 1832 St Ives lost one of its members, and in 1885 the other . Both markets are now held, but only one of the fairs . This takes place on the Saturday nearest St See also:Andrew's See also:day . ST IVES, a market town and municipal borough in the See also:northern parliamentary division of See also:Huntingdonshire, England, mainly on the See also:left (See also:north) See also:bank of the See also:Ouse, 5 M . E. of See also:Huntingdon by the Great Eastern railway . Pop . (1901) 2910 . The See also:river is crossed by an old See also:bridge said to have been built by the abbots of See also:Ramsey See also:early in the 15th century . A building over the centre See also:pier of the bridge was once used as a See also:chapel . The See also:causeway (1827) on the south See also:side of the river is built on See also:arches so as to assist the flow of the river in time of See also:flood . The church of All See also:Saints is Perpendicular, with earlier portions .

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custom is practised annually in this church in connexion with a See also:bequest made by a certain Dr See also:Robert See also:Wilde in 1678: it is the See also:distribution of Bibles to six boys and six girls of the town . The See also:original See also:provision was that the Bibles should be See also:cast for by See also:dice on the Communion table . See also:Oliver See also:Cromwell was a See also:resident in St Ives in 1634-1635, but the house which he inhabited—Slepe See also:Hall—was demolished in the See also:middle of the 19th century . St Ives has a considerable agricultural See also:trade . It is governed by a mayor, 4 aldermen and 12 councillors . Area 2326 acres . The manor of "Slepe" is said to have been given bylEthelstan " Mannessune " to the See also:abbot of Ramsey and confirmed to him by See also:King See also:Edgar . It owed its See also:change of name to the supposed See also:discovery of the See also:grave of St Ive, a See also:Persian See also:bishop, in toot,and a priory was founded in the same See also:year by Abbot Ednoth as a See also:cell to Ramsey . St Ives was chiefly noted for its See also:fair, which was first granted to the abbot of Ramsey by See also:Henry I. to be held on See also:Monday in See also:Easter See also:week and eight days following . In the reign of Henry III. merchants from See also:Flanders came to the fair, which had become so important that the king granted it to be continued beyond the eight days if the abbot agreed to pay a See also:farm of £50 yearly for the extra days . The fair, with a market on Monday granted to the abbot in 1286, survives, and was See also:purchased in 1874 by the See also:corporation from the See also:duke of See also:Manchester . The town was incorporated in 1874 .

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JEAN-D'ANGELY, a town of western See also:France, See also:capital of an See also:arrondissement in the See also:department of See also:Charente-Inferieure, 33 M . E. of See also:Rochefort by rail . Pop . (1906) 6242 . St Jean lies on the right bank of the Boutonne, which is navigable for small vessels . The See also:parish church of St Jean stands on the site of an See also:abbey church of the 13th century, of which some remains are left . In 1568 the monastery was destroyed by the See also:Huguenots, but much of it was rebuilt in the 17th and 18th centuries, to which See also:period belong two towers and the See also:facade of an unfinished church . St Jean owes the suffix of its name to the neighbouring See also:forest of Angery (Angeriacum) . See also:Pippin I. of See also:Aquitaine in the 9th century established there a See also:Benedictine monastery which was afterwards reputed to possess the See also:head. of John the Baptist . This relic attracted hosts of pilgrims; a town See also:grew up, took the name of St Jean d'Angeri, afterwards d'Angely, was fortified in 1131, and in 1204 received a charter from Philip See also:Augustus . The See also:possession of the place was disputed between French and See also:English in the Hundred Years' See also:War, and between Catholics and Protestants at a later date . In 1569 it capitulated to the duke of See also:Anjou (afterwards Henry III.) .

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Louis XIII. again took it from the Protestants in 1621 and deprived it of its privileges and its very name, which he changed to Bourg-Louis . ST JEAN-DE-LUZ, a coast town of south-western France, in the department of Basses-See also:Pyrenees, at the mouth of the Nivelle, 14 m . S.W. of See also:Bayonne on a branch of the' See also:Southern railway . Pop . (2906) 3424 . St Jean-de-Luz is situated in the Basque See also:country on the bay of St Jean-de-Luz, the entrance to which is protected by breakwaters and moles . It has a 13th-century church, the chief features of which are the galleries in the See also:nave, which, according to the Basque custom, are reserved for men . The Maison Lohobiague, the Maison de l'See also:Infante (both 17th cent.), and the hotel de ville (1657) are picturesque old buildings . St Jean is well known for its bathing and as a See also:winter resort . Fishing is a considerable See also:industry . From the 14th to the 17th century St Jean-de-Luz enjoyed a prosperity due to its mariners and fishermen . Its vessels were the first to set out for See also:Newfoundland in 152o .

In 1558, owing to the depredations of its privateers, the Spaniards attacked and burned the town . In 1627, however, it was able to equip 8o vessels, which succeeded in saving the island of R6 from the duke of See also:

Buckingham . In 166o the treaty of the Pyrenees was signed at St Jean-de-Luz, and was followed by the See also:marriage there of the Infanta Maria See also:Theresa and Louis XIV . At that time the See also:population numbered r6,000 . The cession of Newfoundland to England in 1713, the loss of See also:Canada, and the silting-up of the harbour were the three causes which contributed to the decline 'of the town . ST JOHN, CHARLES See also:WILLIAM See also:GEORGE (18o9-1856), English naturalist and sportsman, son of See also:General the Hon . See also:Frederick St John, second son of Frederick, second See also:Viscount See also:Bolingbroke, was born on the 3rd of See also:December 1809 . He was educated at See also:Midhurst, See also:Sussex, and about 1828 obtained a clerk-See also:ship in the See also:treasury, but resigned in 1834, in which year he married a See also:lady with some See also:fortune . He ultimately settled in the " Laigh " of See also:Moray, " within easy distance of See also:mountain See also:sport." In 1853 a paralytic seizure deprived him of the use of his limbs, and for the benefit of his See also:health he removed to the south of England . He died at See also:Woolston, near See also:Southampton, on the 22nd of July 1856, His works are See also:Wild See also:Sports and Natural See also:History of the See also:Highlands (1846, 2nd ed . 1848, 3rd ed . 1861); Tour in See also:Sutherland (1849, 2nd ed., with recollections by See also:Captain H .

St John, 1884); Notes of Natural History and Sport in Morayshire, with Memoir by C . Innes (1863i 2nd ed . 1884) . They are written in a graphic See also:

style, and illustrated with engravings, many of them from See also:clever See also:pen-and-See also:ink sketches of his own . ST JOHN, See also:JAMES AUGUSTUS (1801-1875), See also:British author and traveller, was born in See also:Carmarthenshire, See also:Wales. on the 24tk . of See also:September 18o1 . He received private instruction in the See also:classics, and also acquired proficiency in French, See also:Italian, See also:Spanish, Arabic and Persian . He obtained a connexion with a See also:Plymouth newspaper, and when, in 1824, James See also:Silk Buckingham started the See also:Oriental See also:Herald, St John became assistant editor . In 1827, together with D . L . See also:Richardson, he founded the See also:London Weekly See also:Review, subsequently purchased by See also:Colburn and transformed into the Court See also:Journal . He lived for some years on the See also:Continent and went in 1832 to See also:Egypt and See also:Nubia, travelling mostly on See also:foot .

The results of his journey were published under the titles Egypt and Mohammed See also:

Ali, or Travels in the Valley of the See also:Nile (2 vols., 1834), Egypt and Nubia (1844), and See also:Isis, an See also:Egyptian See also:Pilgrimage (2 vols., 1853) . On his return he settled in London, and for many years wrote political " leaders " for the Daily See also:Telegraph . In 1868 he published a See also:Life of See also:Sir See also:Walter See also:Raleigh, based on researches in the archives at See also:Madrid and elsewhere . He died in London on the 22nd of September 1875 . Besides the works mentioned St John was also the author of Journal of a See also:Residence in See also:Normandy (183o) ; Lives of Celebrated Travellers (183o) ; See also:Anatomy of Society (1831) ; History, See also:Manners and Customs of the See also:Hindus (1831) ; See also:Margaret See also:Ravenscroft, or Second Love (3 vols., 1835) ; The Hellenes, or Manners and Customs of See also:Ancient See also:Greece (1842); Sir Cosmo See also:Digby, a novel (1844); There and Back Again in See also:Search of Beauty (1853) ; The See also:Nemesis of See also:Power (1854) See also:Philosophy at the Foot of the See also:Cross (1854); The See also:Preaching of See also:Christ (1855) ; The See also:Ring and the See also:Veil, a novel (1856) ; Life of Louis See also:Napoleon (1857); History of the Four Conquests of England (1862); and Weighed in the See also:Balance, a novel (1864) . He also edited, with notes, various English classics . Of his four sons, all journalists and authors of some See also:literary distinction—See also:Percy ' Bolingbroke (1821–1889), See also:Bayle, See also:Spenser and See also:Horace See also:Roscoe (182–1888)—the second, BAYLE ST JOHN (1822-1869), began contributing to the See also:periodicals when only thirteen . When twenty he wrote a series of papers for See also:Fraser under, the See also:title " De re vehiculari, or a Comic History of Chariots." To the same See also:magazine he contributed a series of essays on See also:Montaigne, and published in 1857 Montaigne the Essayist, a See also:Biography, in 4 volumes . During a residence of two years in Egypt he wrote The Libyan Desert (1849) . While in Egypt he learnt Arabic and"visited the See also:oasis of See also:Siwa . On his return he settled for some time in Paris and published Two Years in a Levantine See also:Family (185o) and Views in the Oasis of Siwah (185o) . After a second visit to the See also:East he published See also:Village Life in Egypt (1852) ; See also:Purple Tints of Paris: Characters and Manners in the New See also:Empire (1854); The Louvre, or Biography of a Museum (1855) ; the Subalpine Kingdom, or Experiences and Studies in See also:Savoy (1856); Travels of an Arab See also:Merchant in the Soudan (1854) Maretimo, a Story of See also:Adventure (1856) ; and See also:Memoirs of the Duke of Saint-See also:Simon in the Reign of Louis XIV .

(4 vols., 1857) . ST JOHN, OLIVER (c . 1598-1673), English statesman and See also:

judge, was the son of Oliver St John . There were two branches of the ancient family to which he belonged, namely, the St Johns of Bletso in See also:Bedfordshire, and the St Johns of Lydiard Tregoze in See also:Wiltshire, both descendants of the St Johns of See also:Staunton St John in See also:Oxfordshire . Oliver St John was a member of the See also:senior<