Peso
a silver coin and money of account used in Mexico and other parts of Spanish America, and often considered equivalent to a dollar. maintenance and instruction. He opened a school in the Castle of Yverdun (canton Vaud), which the government had placed at his disposal. His novel "Lienhardt and Gertrud" (1781-1789), exerted a powerful moral influence, while his educational treatises laid the foundation for the more rational system of elementary instruction which now ob- PESTH PETECHIE tains in Eu Europe. Pestalozzi's method many made her supreme effort. General was that of communicating all instruc- Pétain met the Germans with a countertion by direct appeal to the senses and the understanding, selecting the subjects of study in such a way that each step should best aid the further progress of the pupil. He died in 1827.
PESTH. See BUDAPEST.
PÉTAIN, MARSHAL HENRI