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AUGUSTE, and PIERRE, two American pioneers; born in New Orleans, La., in 1739, and in 1749. respectively. They were from their early youth fur traders and in 1763 set out to establish trading stations in the regions W. of the Mississippi. Feb. 14, 1764, Auguste founded St. Louis on site chosen by Laclède. He died in St. Louis, Feb. 24, 1829, and Pierre, July 9, 1849.
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CHRESTIEN DE TROYES (krestyen de trwä), the greatest of the early French romancers, flourished in the 12th century. Though he won high fame as a lyrist, his renown is based on his epic compositions, especially on his stories of King Arthur and the Round Table. His epic of "King Marcus and the Fair Ysault" is lost; but these remain: "Irec and Enid"; "Cligés"; "The Knight of La Charette"; "The Knight with the Lion"; "Perceval the Welshman." The last is his most considerable work, but it does not come from his hand alone, being continued and completed by Gautier de Denet and Menassier. In this piece are wrought into one story the legend of the Holy Grail and that of Arthur, which thereafter were not divorced. His language and the versification were models for troubadours and romancers for a long time; and from him the Arthurian poets to the end of the 13th cen- Keystone View Company OLD NORTH CHURCH, BOSTON, MASS.
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