Fongities
A gem said to assuage anger. in gold, silver, or brass, according to their means. Fontaine, John : This Flemish alchemist and poet appears to have lived at Valenciennes towards the close of the thirteenth century. Two books are ascribed to him, La Fontaine des Amoureux de Science and La Fontaine Perilleuse, both of which are written in French and were published at Paris, the first-named in 1561 and the second eleven years later. His claims to the authorship of the latter work have frequently been disputed, but the former is almost certainly his, and a curious production it is. At the outset the author professes himself an adept in hermetic philosophy, and thereafter he proceeds, in poetry of an allegorical style which recalls The Romaunt of the Rose, to describe the different processes to be gone through ere achieving a transmutation. There is little in this metrical treatise which indicates that the writer was an alchemist of any great ability, but he certainly possessed a distinct Fontenettes, Charles. : Author of a Dissertation sur une fille gift for making pleasant if hardly powerful verses. de Grenoble, qui depuis quatre ans ne boit ni ne mange, 1737. This prodigy was commonly attributed to the devil, but Fontenettes explained that it was due to a less sinister cause. Fork, Magical: (See Magic.)