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VIGAN
, a See also:town and the See also:capital of the See also:province of Ilocos Sur, Luzon, Philippine Islands, at the mouth of the Abra See also:river, about 200 M
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N. by W. of See also:Manila
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Pop. of the See also:municipality (1903) 14,945; after the See also:census of 1903 was taken there were See also:united to Vigan the municipalities of Bantay (pop
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7020), See also:San See also:Vicente (pop
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5o6o), See also:Santa Catalina (pop
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5625) and Coayan (pop
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62o1), making the See also:total See also:population of the municipality 38,851
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Vigan is the See also:residence of the See also:bishop of Nueva See also:Segovia and has a See also:fine See also:cathedral, a substantial See also:court-See also:house, other durable public buildings and a See also:monument to Juan de Salcedo, its founder
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It is engaged in farming, fishing, the manufacture of See also:brick, See also:tile, See also:cotton fabrics and See also:furniture, and the See also:building of boats
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The See also:language is Ilocano
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VIGEE-See also:LEBRUN, See also:MARIE-See also:ANNE ELISABETH (1755-1842), See also:French painter, was See also:born in See also:Paris, the daughter of a painter, from whom she received her first instruction, though shebenefited more by the See also:advice of See also:Doyen, See also:Greuze, See also:Joseph See also:Vernet and other masters of the See also:period
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When only about twenty years of See also:age she had already risen to fame with her portraits of See also:Count Orloff and the duchess of See also:
In 1776 she married the painter and See also:art-critic J
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B
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P
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Lebrun, and in 1783 her picture of " See also:Peace bringing back Abundance " (now at the Louvre) gained her the membership of the See also:Academy
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When the Revolution See also:broke out in 1789 she escaped first to See also:Italy, where she worked at See also:Rome and See also:Naples
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At Rome she painted the portraits of Princesses See also:Adelaide and See also:Victoria, and at Naples the " See also:Lady ,See also: The Louvre owns two portraits of Mme Lebrun and her daughter, besides five other, portraits and an allegorical See also:composition . A full account of her eventful See also:life is given in the artist's Souvenirs, and in C . Pillet's Mme Vigee-Le Brun (Paris, 1890) . The artist's autobiography has been translated by Lionel See also:Strachey, Memoirs of Mme Vigee-Lebrun (New See also:York, 1903), fully illustrated . |
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