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VALLES, JULES (1832-1885), French journalist and author, was born at Puys, France, on the icth of June 1832. Coming to Paris, he joined the staff of the Figaro, and became a constant contributor to the other leading journals. In 1866 he republished much of his ...

VALLS, a town of north-eastern Spain, in the province of Tarragona; n m. N. of Tarragona, on the Picamoixons-Roda railway. Pop. (1900) 12,625. Vails is an old town, and its walls and towers still remain. Wool and cotton spinning and weaving, dyeing, distilling

TRALLES (mod. Giizel Hissar), an ancient town of Caria, Asia Minor, situated on the Eudon, a tributary of the Maeander. It was reputed an Argive and Thracian colony, and was long under Persian rule, of which we hear in the history of Dercyllidas' raid from Eph

VALET (Fr. valet; O. Fr. vaslet), a term now restricted in meaning to that of a gentleman's personal servant. The origin of the word is debated. Du Cange (Glossarium, s. Valeti) explains it as the diminutive of vassallus, a vassal, the sons of vassalli being t