Claretie
JULES (klär-tē'), French novelist and dramatist; born in Limoges, Dec. 3, 1840. He wrote a long series of very successful novels, the most noteworthy of them being "Madeleine Bertin" (1868); "The Million" (1882); "Monsieur the Minister" (1882); "Noris, Manners of the Time" (1883); "The American Woman" (1892); etc. wrote also some striking chapters of contemporary history, as "The Revolution of 1870-1871"; "Paris Besieged"; "Five Years After: Alsace and Lorraine Since He Northampton in favor of the Church, Annexation." His dramatic composibut they are not the less to be regarded as containing the germ of the ecclesiastical policy of Henry VIII. CLARENDON, EDWARD HYDE, EARL OF, Lord High Chancellor of England; born in Dinton, Wiltshire, in 1608. During the civil wars he zealously attached himself to the royal cause, was tions relate mostly to the time of the great Revolution. He became administrator of the Comédie Française in 1885, and was chosen member of the Academy in 1888. He died in 1913.