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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ANVILLE, JEAN BAPTISTS BOURGUIGNON D' (16971782), perhaps the greatest geographical author of the i8th century, was born at Paris on the 1 1 th of July 1697. His passion for geographical research displayed itself from early years: at the age of twelve he was a ...

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 ...

... . Andilly's five daughters all took the veil there; the second, ANGELIQUE DE ST JEAN ARNAULD D'ANDILLY (1624-1684) rose to be abbess, was a writer of no mean repute, and one of the most remarkable figures of the second generation of Jansenism. One of Andilly's ...

... untiring energy and vivid Baler. genius, Leonhard Euler, Alexis Clairault, and Jean Clairault. le Rond d'Alembert. The first of the outstanding D^"" gravitational problems with which they grappled was the unaccountably rapid advance of the lunar perigee. But ...

ASTRUC, JEAN (1684-1766), French physician and Biblical critic, was born on the i qth of March 1684 at Sauve, in Languedoc. ASTURA— ASTURIAS He graduated in medicine at Montpellier in 1703, and in 1710 he was appointed to the chair of anatomy at Toulouse, whic ...

... AY, 2nd earl and ist marquess of Atholl (1631-1703), son of the ist earl and of Jean, daughter of Sir Duncan Campbell of Glenorchy, was born on the 2nd of May 1631. In 1650 he joined in the unsuccessful attempt to liberate Charles II. from the Covenanters, and ...

AUDEBERT, JEAN BAPTISTS (1739-1800), French artist and naturalist, was born at Rochefort in 1759. He studied painting and drawing at Paris, and gained considerable reputation as a miniature-painter. Employed in preparing plates for the Histoire des col&opteres ...

... uty of detail hardly compensate for the spontaneity of the shorter form. See A. Jeanroy, Les Origines de la poesie lyrique en France au moyen Age (Paris, 1889).

... Fontenay-le-Comte, where he had gone to reside, and was buried at Poitiers. See Jean Froissart, Chroniques, translated by T. Johnes (Hafod, 1810) ; G. F. Beltz, Memorials of the Most Noble Order of the Garter (London, 1841). AUDLEY, THOMAS AUDLEY, BARON (c. 14 ...

AUDOUIN, JEAN VICTOR (1797-1841), French naturalist, was born at Paris on the 27th of April 1797. He began the study of law, but was diverted from it by his strong predilection for natural history, and entered the medical profession. In 1824 he was appointed a ...

... o died 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 desig ...

... iliberte (1853) he produced a graceful and delicate drawing-room comedy; and in Jean de Thommeray, acted in 1873 after the great reverses of 1870, the regenerating note of patriotism rings high and clear.. His lost two dramas, Madame Coverlet (1876) and Let Fo ...

... g supported on silk threads (Phil. Trans., 1735-1736, 39, pp. 16, 166 and 400). Jean Theophile Desaguliers (1683-1744) announced soon after that electrics were non-conductors, and conductors were nonelectrics. C. F. de C. du Fay (1699-1739) made the great disc ...

... sts. Curiously enough the cottage, a stone building, built by the same duke for Jean Jacques Rousseau, still stands in the park, while the ducal residence was burnt down by the sans-culotles. A fine pavilion or kiosk, named de 1'Etoile, has also survived. The ...

... sts. Curiously enough the cottage, a stone building, built by the same duke for Jean Jacques Rousseau, still stands in the park, while the ducal residence was burnt down by the sans-culotles. A fine pavilion or kiosk, named de 1'Etoile, has also survived. The ...

... 6th century, it was sold by King Henry (afterwards King Henry IV. of France) to Jean Louis de Nogaret, for whom it was raised to the rank of a duchy in 1581. The new duke of Epernon was one of the favourites of Henry III., who were called les Mignons; the king ...

... ed with commissions, and finding assistance necessary, he sent for his brother, Jean Baptiste, in conjunction with whom he established in the rue de Bourbon, in the Faubourg St Germain, a piano manufactory, which in a few years became one of the most celebrate ...

... Poetry (1782). A good biography precedes the Morceaux choisis (Paris, 1900) by Jean Ducamin.

... L OF (d. 1631), Scottish nobleman, was the son of Andrew, 8th earl, and of Lady Jean Hay, daughter of William, 6th earl. The date of his birth is unrecorded, but he succeeded to the earldom (cr. 1453) in 1585, was early converted to Roman Catholicism, and as t ...

... king and Anne occupied the same window. In 1533 Francis gave her in marriage to Jean de Brosse, whom he created due d'Etampes. The influence of the duchesse d'Etampes, especially in the last years of the reign, was considerable. She upheld Admiral Chabot again ...

... l." Another great etcher— Frenchman by birth, but English by long residence —is Alphonse Legros (q.v.). Great in expression and suggestive draughtsmanship, austere and economical in line, Legros's work is the grave record of the observation and the fancy of an ...

... Lady Alma-Tadema, and Mrs Edmund Gosse. E>R6MESNIL (ESPREMESNIL or EPREMENIL), JEAN JACQUES

TABARIN (Fr. tabard, Ital. labarrino, a small cloak), the name assumed by Jean Salomon (c. 1584-1633), a Parisian street charlatan, who amused his audiences in the Place Dauphine by farcical dialogue with his partner Mondor (Phillippe Girard), with whom he rea ...

... iddle Temple in the same year. When, fourteen years later, he wa's created a serjeant-at-law, and when again he in 1849 succeeded Mr. Justice Coltman as judge of the court of common pleas, he attained these distinctions more perhaps for his laborious care in t ...

... alzac, Malherbe, Chapelain, Valentin Conrart and many others; Blaise Pascal and Jean de la Fontaine appear in his pages; and he chronicles the scandals of which Ninon de 1'Enclos and Angelique Paulet were centres. They are invaluable for the literary history o ...

... 1896. He died on the 23rd of April 1907, and was succeeded at the Academy by M. Jean Richepin. See Emm. Besson, Andre Theuriet (1890).

THEVENOT, JEAN DE (1633-1667), French traveller in the East, was born in Paris on the i6th of June 1633, and received his education in the college of Navarre. The perusal of works of travel moved him to go abroad, and his circumstances permitted him to please ...

... he course of desultory reading at the university he had studied the writings of Jean Jacques Rousseau, and the Frenchman's plea for Nature, honest work and simplicity of life, had impressed him greatly. Fired with enthusiasm, he now entered heart and soul on t ...

TREILHARD, JEAN BAPTISTE (1742-1810), French revolutionist, was born at Brives (Correze). In Paris he gained reputation as an avocat at the parlement, and was a deputy to the states-general in 1789. In the Constituent Assembly he showed great capacity in deali ...

... umerable; perhaps the most graceful cycle of them is " Les Prunes," attached by Alphonse Daudet to his Les Amoureuses in 1858; and there are delightful examples by Theodore de Banville. In Germany the triolet has attracted much attention. Those which had been ...

... e editor. Other of his works are Souvent homme varie (1859), a comedy in verse; Jean Baudry (1863), the most successful of his plays; Aujourd'hui et demain (1875); Futura (1900), poems on philosophical and humanitarian subjects. Vacquerie died in Paris on the ...

... e editor. Other of his works are Souvent homme varie (1859), a comedy in verse; Jean Baudry (1863), the most successful of his plays; Aujourd'hui et demain (1875); Futura (1900), poems on philosophical and humanitarian subjects. Vacquerie died in Paris on the ...