Aulis
in ancient Greece, a seaport in Bœotia, on the strait called Euripus, between Bœotia and Eubœa.
AUMALE (ō-mäl), a small French town, in the department of Seine-Inférieure, 35 miles N. E. of Rouen, which has given titles to several notables in French history. JEAN D'ARCOURT, eighth Count d'Aumale, fought at Agincourt, and defeated the English at Gravelle (1423).
CLAUDE II., Duc d'Aumale, one of the chief instigators of the Massacre of St.
Bartholomew, was killed 1573. CHARLES DE LORRAINE, Duc d'Aumale, was an ardent partisan of the League in the politico-religious French wars of the 16th century. HENRI EUGENE PHILIPPE LOUIS D'ORLEANS, Duc d'Aumale, son of Louis Philippe, King of the French, was born in Paris, Jan. 16, 1822. In 1847 he succeeded Marshal Bugeaud as Governor- General of Algeria, where he had distinguished himself in the war against Abdel-Kader. After the Revolution of 1848 he retired to England; but he returned to France in 1871, and was elected a member of the Assembly; became Inspector-general of the army in 1879, and was AURELIUS expelled, along with the other royal princes, in 1886. The same year he presented to the Institute of France his grand Chantilly estate, with all its priceless art and historical treasures. The decree of banishment was revoked on the fall of Boulanger, and the Duke returned to Chantilly. He published a "History of the House of Condé." He died in Zucco, Sicily, May 6, 1897 .
AURANTIACEÆ (a-ran-tē-as'ē-i), an order of plants, classed by Lindley in his rutales, or rutal alliance. They have from three to five petals, stamina the same in number, or twice as many, or some multiple of the petals , hypogynous.
The fruit is pulpy, and is many-celled.
There is no genus aurantium. The typical one is citrus, which contains the orange, the lemon, the lime, etc.
There are about 95 known species, all from India.
AURELIAN, LUCIUS DOMITIUS