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AUDRAN, the name of a family of French artists and engravers. The first who devoted himself to the art of engraving was Claude Audran, born 1 597, and the last was Benoit, Claude's great-grandson, who died in 1772. The two most distinguished members of the fam ...

AUDRAN. EDMOND (1841-1901), French musical composer, was born at Lyons on the i ith of April 1842. He studied music at the Ecole Niedcrmcycr, where he won the prize for composition in 1859. Two yean later he accepted the post of organist of the church of St Jo ...

ARYAN, a term which has been used in a confusing variety of significations by different philologists. By Max Miiller especially it was employed as a convenient short term for the whole body of languages more commonly known as IndoEuropean (q.v.) or Indo-German

URBAN (Urbanus), the name of eight popes. St URBAN, first pope of that name, was bishop of Rome from 222 to 230. He had been preceded by Calixtus, and was followed by Pontianus.

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... are earths, and was first obtained in 1896 by E. A. Demarcay from Lecoq de Boisbaudran's samarium; G. Urbain and H. Lacombe in 1904 obtained the pure salts by fractional crystallization of the nitric acid solution with magnesium nitrate in the presence of bism ...

GERARD, or GIRARO, AUDRAN, the most celebrated French engraver, was the third son of Claude Audran, and was born at Lyons in 1640. He was taught the first principles of design and engraving by his father; and, following the example of his brother, went to Pari ...