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ERARD, SEBASTIEN (1752-1831), French manufacturer of musical instruments, distinguished especially for the improvements he made upon the harp and the pianoforte, was born at Strassburg on the 5th of April 1752. While a boy he showed great aptitude for practica ...

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 ...

TIRARD, PIERRE EMANUEL (1827-1893), French politician, was born of French parents at Geneva on the 27th of September 1827, and, after studying in his native town, became a civil engineer. After five years of government service he resigned to become a jewel mer

... Apostles was founded about 1260 by a young workman from the environs of Parma, Gerard Segarelli, who had sought admission unsuccessfully to the Franciscan order. To make his life conform to that of Christ, his contemporaries say that he had himself circumcised ...

... ed tree, and was introduced into Britain before 1597, when it was mentioned in Gerard's Herbal. In its native country it attains a height of about 50 ft. The leaves are small and imbricate, and are borne on flattened branches, which are apt to be mistaken for ...

... lumes (complete) at Buffalo, 1853. A life was written by Caspar Brandt, sun of Gerard Brandt, the historian of the Dutch reformation, and published in 1724: republishcd and annotated by I. L. Mosheim in 1725; and translated into English by the Rev. John Guthri ...

AUCHTERARDER (Gaelic, "upper high land"), a police burgh of Perthshire, Scotland, 13} m. S.W. of Perth by the Caledonian railway. Pop. (1001) 2276. It is situated on Ruthven Water, a right-hand tributary of the Earn. The chief manufactures are those of tartans ...

... in 1772. The two most distinguished members of the family are G6rard and Jean. 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 e ...

... rth cannot be definitely fixed. His father's name seems to ^have been Rogerius Gerardus. He himself was christened Herasmus; but in 1503, when becoming familiar with Greek, he assimilated the name to a fancied Greek original, which he had a few years before La ...

... lower being afforded by the resemblance to " the radiant beams of the sun," as Gerard expresses it. The rock-rose (Helianlhemum iiulgare) was also termed sunflower in some of the herbals from its flowers opening only in the sunshine. Actinella grandiflora, a p ...

... s been cultivated from prehistoric times by the aborigines. It is mentioned by Gerard as the " potato," or " potatus " or " potades," in contradistinction to the " potatoes " of Virginia (Solanum luberosum). He grew it in his garden, but the climate was not wa ...

... those that deal with provincial and country life. Among them are: Le manage de Gerard (1875); Raymonde (1877); Le fits Maugars (1879); La maison des deux Barbeaux (1879); Souvageonne (1880); Reine des bois (1890); Villa tranquille (1899); Le manuscrit du chano ...

... ng, 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 succeeded Howe in c ...