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Cheney (EDNAH DOW LITTLE- HALE)

EDNAH DOW (LITTLE- HALE), an American writer; born in Boston in 1824. She was president of the New England Woman's Club and the Massachusetts Suffrage Association.

She wrote "Handbook of American History for Colored People"; "Life of Louisa M. Alcott"; and several stories, besides other books. She died in 1904.

CHÉNIER, ANDRÉ MARIE DE (shānyã'), a French poet; born in Constantinople, Oct. 30, 1762. Shortly before the Terror he made a vigorous attack on the Jacobins in the "Journal de Paris."

He wrote Louis XVI.'s appeal to the people after the death sentence. He celperished under the guillotine July 25, ebrated in verse Charlotte Corday. He 1794. a CHENONCEAUX (shā-nôn-sō'), famous French château, standing partly on an island in the Cher, partly on a bridge spanning the river, near a station 20 miles E. by S. of Tours. It was begun in 1524 by the Chancellor Thomas Bohier, continued by Diana of Poitiers, and completed by Catharine de' Medici, who richly embellished the building and surrounded it with a beautiful park. It passed into private hands. The castle is in excellent preservation.

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