Blenny
the English name of the several fishes belonging to the genus blennius.
BLÉRÉ (blā-rā'), a French town, in the department of Indre-et-Loire, on the Cher, 15 miles E. S. E. of Tours. In the vicinity is the Château Chénonceaux, built in the time of Francis I., and still in excellent preservation. It was given by Henry II. to his mistress, Diana de Poitiers, who was dispossessed on the death of Henry by Catherine de Medici.
In the latter part of the 18th century it was frequented by Fontenelle, Voltaire, Rousseau, and all the wits of the time, who were drawn together by the then owner of the château, Madame Dupin, widow of a fermier général who died in 1799.