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WILLIAM ADOLPHE (bög-rō'), a French painter, born in La Rochelle, Nov. 30, 1825. After a youth of hardship courageously endured he succeeded in reaching Paris, where he was educated at the studio of Picot, and at the Beaux Arts. In 1850 he gained the Prix de Rome, and went to Italy to study. His first great success was "The Body of St. Cecilia Borne to the Catacombs" in the Salon of 1854. He painted portraits occasionally, but his subjects are chiefly ideal, idyllic and religious. He was a thorough draftsman, and excelled in the painting of flesh. He died Aug. 20, 1905.
BOUILLÉ (bö-yā'), FRANÇOIS CLAUDE AMOUR, MARQUIS DE, a French general, born in Cluzel, Nov. 19, 1739; entered the army at the age of 14 and served with distinction in Germany during the Seven Years' War. In 1768 he was appointed governor of the island BOULDER of Guadeloupe, and afterward commander-in-chief of all the French forces in the West Indies. When war broke out in 1778, he successively took from the British, Dominica, Tobago, St. Eustache, Saba, St. Martin, St. Christopher's, and Nevis. Louis XVI. nominated him a member of the Assembly of Notables in 1787-1788; in 1790 he was made commander-in-chief of the army of the Meuse, the Saar, and the Moselle. For his share in the attempted escape of Louis XVI. he had to flee from France.
In 1791 he entered into the service of Gustavus III., of Sweden, and afterward served in the corps of the Prince of Condé. He rejected a proposal, made in 1793, that he should take the chief command in La Vendée; and went to England, where he wrote his Mémoires sur la Révolution Française." He died in London, Nov. 14, 1800.
BOUILLON (bö-yōn), originally a German duchy, now a district in Belgium, 9 miles wide and 18 long, on the border of Luxembourg, a woody and mountainous tract. tract. Pop Pop. about 23,000.
The small town of Bouillon was once the capital of the duchy, which belonged to the famous Crusader, Godfrey of Bouillon.