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ALEXANDRE CHATRIAN (1826-1890) on the i8th of December 1826 at Soldatenthal, Lorraine. In 1847 they began to write together, and continued doing so till 1889. Chatrian died in 1890 at Villemomble near Paris, and Erckmann at Luneville in 1899. The list of their ...

ERCKMANN-CHATRIAN, the joint names of two French writers whose collaboration made their work that of, so to speak, one personality. EMILE ERCKMANN (1822-1899) was born on the 2oth of May 1 82 2 at Phalsbourg, and Louis GRATIEN CHARLES ALEXANDRE CHATRIAN (1826- ...

ANTRAIGUES. EMMANUEL HENRI LOUIS ALEXANDRE DE LAUNAY, COMTE D' (c. 1755-1812), French publicist and political adventurer, was a nephew of Francois Emmanuel de Saint-Priest (1735-1821), one of the last ministers of Louis XVI. He was a cavalry captain, but, havi ...

... re carried on. The engineer under whose direction the tower was constructed was Alexandre Gustave Eiffel (born at Dijon on the isth of December 1832), who had already had a wide experience in the construction of large metal bridges, and who designed the huge s ...

... mte d'Estaing, which sailed from Toulon in April 1778, having on board M Conrad Alexandre Gerard de Rayneval, who had been accredited as minister to the United States, and Silas Deane, who was returning to report to Congress. Sir Henry Clinton had now succeede ...

... Venice made this action a casus belli. The Genoese won a victory in the gulf of Alexandretta (1294); but on the other hand the Venetians under Ruggiero Morosini forced the Dardanelles and sacked the Genoese quarter of Galata. The decisive engagement, however, ...