Monvel
LOUIS MAURICE BOU TEL, a French illustrator, portrait and genre painter; born at Orleans in 1850.
Studied at the Beaux Arts and with Carolus Duran after the Franco-Prussian War. In 1875 he first exhibited portraits which won several medals, notably a gold medal at the Paris Exposition of 1890. After this he devoted himself largely to illustrating, winning a world-wide fame. He was especially successful in depicting child life. He made six canvases on the subject of the life of Joan of Arc for the church at Domremy which were exhibited throughout the United States. Another series on the same subject were painted for Senator W. A. Clark. He was working on illustrations for a Life of St. Francis of Assisi when he died in 1913.
MONZA (mōn'zä) (ancient Modetia), a town of Italy, on the river Lambro, 9 miles N. N. E. of Milan; it has an interesting town hall (1293), a royal pal- He subsequently built a church in Chicago, which was destroyed in the great fire in 1871. In 1873 he began, with Ira D. Sankey, the evangelistic_work which soon made him famous. He met with unparalleled success both in the United States and Great Britain. In 1879 he founded a school for poor girls at Northfield, Mass., which later grew into the celebrated Northfield and Mount Hermon institutions. His publications include "The Second Coming of Christ" (1877); "The Way to God, and How to Find It" (1884); etc. He died in Northfield, Mass., Dec. 22, 1899.