Malot
HECTOR (mä-lō'), a French novelist; born near Rouen, France, May 20, 1830. He was a prolific writer. Of his numerous works the best known are: "The Victims of Love," in three parts; "The Lovers"; "Husband and Wife"; "The Children"; "Doctor Claude"; "Accomplices"; "In the Bosom of the Family"; etc. Most of his books treat of French life under the Second Empire.
He died in 1907.
MALPLAQUET (mäl-plä-kā'), a vil lage in the French department of Nord, 10 miles S. of Mons in Belgium. Here, Sept. 11, 1709, over 90,000 British and Dutch, under Marlborough and Prince Eugene, defeated about the same number of French under Marshal Villars. In this "very murderous battle," as Marlborough called it, the loss of the allies was from 20,000 to 30,000, of the French from 6,000 to 16,000. Its result was the capture of Mons.