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ARBOIS, a town of eastern France, in the department of Jura, on the Cuisance, 29 m. N.N.E. of Lons-le-Saunier by rail. Pop. (1906) 3454. The town is the seat of the tribunal of first instance of the arrondissement of Poligny, and has a communal college. The ch ...

ARBOIS DE JUBAINVILLE, MARIE HENRI D' (1827-1910), French historian and philologist, was born at Nancy on the $th of December 1827. In 1851 he left the Ecole des Charles with the degree of palaeographk archivist. He was placed in control of the departmental ar ...

ARBOS, FERNANDEZ (1863- ), Spanish violinist and composer, was born in Madrid, and trained at the conservatoire 'there, and later at Brussels and at Berlin under Joachim. He became a professor at Hamburg and then at Madrid, becoming ARBOUR— ARBUTHNOT famous me

ARGOS, the name of several ancient Greek cities or districts, but specially appropriated in historic times to the chief town in eastern Peloponnese, whence the peninsula of Argolis derives its name. The Argeia, or territory of Argos proper, consisted of a shel

... Gaul, led Theodosius to appoint him chief minister for his young brother-in-law ARBOIS -ARBORETUM Valentinian II. Ilia rule was moil energetic; but while he favoured the barbarians in the imperial service, and appointed them to high office, Valentinian, openly ...