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FRANCOIS TURRETIN (1623-1687), son of the preceding, was born at Geneva on the i7th of October 1623. After studying theology in Geneva, Leiden and France, he became pastor of the Italian congregation in Geneva in 1647 ; after a brief pastorate at Lyons he agai ...

BENOIT TURRETIN (1588-1631), the son of Francesco Turretini, a native of Lucca, who settled in Geneva in 1579, was born at Zurich on the Qth of November 1588. He was ordained a pastor in Geneva in 1612, and became professor of theology in 1618. In 1620 he repr ...

JEAN ALPHONSE TURRETIN (1671-1737), son of the preceding, was born at Geneva on the i3th of August 1671. He studied theology at Geneva under L. Tronchin, and after travelling in Holland, England and France was received into the " Venerable Compagnie des Pasteu ...

... successor, Henry III., who faithfully fulfilled the charge. His mother married Francois de Balzac, marquis d'Entragues, and one of her daughters, Henriette, marchioness of Verneuil, afterwards became the mistress of Henry IV. Charles of Valois, was carefully ...

ANGUIER, FRANCOIS (c. 1604-1669), and MICHEL (16121686), French sculptors, were two brothers, natives of Eu in Normandy. Their apprenticeship was served in the studio of Simon Guillain. The chief works of Francois are the monument to Cardinal de Berulle, found ...

... E 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, having little- taste for the army, left it and travelled exten ...

ARAGO, DOMINIQUE FRANCOIS JEAN (1786-1853), French physicist, was born on the 26th of February 1786, at Estagel, a small village near Perpignan, in the department of the eastern Pyrenees. He was the eldest of four brothers. Jean (17881836) emigrated to America ...

... pillaged. During the Religious Wars it remained attached to the Catholic party. Francois Eudes de Mezeray, the historian, was born near the town, and a monument has been erected to his memory.

... its fortunes. Louis XIV. revived the title of viscount of Aubusson in favour of Francois, first marshall de la Feuillade (1686). From the family of the old viscounts was descended Pierre d'Aubusson (<?.».). Admiral Sallandrouze de Lamornaix (1840-1902) belonge ...

AUGEREAU, PIERRE FRANCOIS CHARLES, duke of Castiglione (1757-1816), marshal of France, was born in Paris in a humble station of life. At the age of seventeen he enlisted in the carabineers and thereafter came into note as a duellist. Having drawn his sword upo ...

... tation increased so rapidly that in 1755 he was, on the recommendation of Louis Francois, prince of Conti, entrusted by Louis XV. (who had originally started his " secret " foreign policy — i.e. by undisclosed agents behind the backs of his ministers — in fa v ...

... y much later, probably in the reign of Henry III. See Paulin Paris, Ittudes sur Francois I" (Paris, 1885). &TAMPES, a town of northern France, capital of an arrondissement in the department of Seine-et-Oise, on the Orleans railway, 35 m. S. by W. of Paris. Pop ...

... s has the title, Les Quinze Limes des Elements d'Euclide. Traduicts de Latin en Francois. Par D. Henrion, Mathematicien. The first edition of it was published at Paris in 1615, and a second, corrected and augmented, in 1623. Pierre Forcadel de Bezies had publi ...

EUGENE OF SAVOY [FRANCOIS EUGENE], PRINCE (16631736), fifth son of Prince Eugene Maurice of Savoy-Carignano, count of Soissons, and of Olympia Mancini, niece of Cardinal Mazarin, was born at Paris on the i8th of October 1663 . Originally destined for the churc ...

... . When he was about eighteen years of age he was sent to Italy with his brother Francois, abbe Tallemant. On his return to Paris, Tallemant took his degrees in civil and canonical law, and his father secured for him the position of conseiller au parlement. The ...

... opinion justified Theophile's denial of this ascription, but the Jesuit father, Francois Garasse, published a tract against him entitled La Doctrine curieuse (1623). Theophile was again prosecuted. This time he fled from Paris, to the court of Montmorency, and ...

TISSERAND, FRANCOIS FELIX (1845-1896), French astronomer, was born at Nuits-Saint-Georges, C6te-d'Or, on the i3th of January 1845. In 1863 he entered the ficole Normale Superieure, and on leaving he went for a month as professor at the lycee at Metz. Le Verrie ...

... tury. The lycee occupies an old college founded in the i6th century by Cardinal Francois de Tournon. Of the two suspension bridges which unite the town with Tain on the left bank of the river, one was built in 1825 and is the oldest in France. A statue to Gene ...

... , 1747); John Daly Burk's History of Virginia (3 vols., Petersburg, 1804-1805); Francois Xavier Martin's History of North Carolina (2 vols., New Orleans, 1829); William James Rivers's Sketch of the History of South Carolina to the Close of the Proprietary Gove ...