Champaign
a city in Champaign co., Ill., on the Illinois Central, the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis, and other railroads, 48 miles S. E. of Bloomington. It is the trade center of a very rich agricultural region, is the seat of the Burnham Athenæum and Hospital, and has several banks, daily and weekly newspapers, etc. Pop. (1910) 12,421; (1920) 15,873.
CHAMP DE MARS (shän-de-märs'), a large, rectangular public place in PARIS (q. v.), on the left bank of the Seine.
CHAMPFLEURY (shon-fle-rē')_pseudonym of Jules Fleury-Husson, a French novelist born at Laon, Sept. 10, 1821.
His story of "The Faience Violin" was a masterpiece of realistic description. He wrote an autobiographical novel of his youthful years in "The Confessions of Sylvius" (1849), continuing continuing the story in "The Adventures of Mariette" (1856).
But his "Burghers of Molinchart" (1855), a satiric delineation of the provincial bourgeoisie, made him famous. He is a pronounced "realist." He died at Sèvres, Dec. 5, 1889.