Villemain
ABEL FRANÇOIS, a French author; born in Paris, June 11, 1790. Educated at the Lycée Louis-le- French author; born in Paris, June 11, Grand, he was at the age of 20 appointed assistant Professor of Rhetoric at the professor at the Ecole Normale. In 1812 he gained the prize of the Academy for professor at the Ecole Normale. In 1812 Lycée Charlemagne, and soon afterward his "Eulogy of Montaigne"; ; on April 21, 1814, he read before the King of Prussia, the Czar Alexander, and the élite of 1814, he read before the King of Prussia, tages and Inconveniences of the Critic," and two years after, he was crowned a third time for his "Eulogy of Montesquieu." Deputy for Evreux from July, 1829, he was made a peer of France in 1832, and from March 13, 1839, to March 1, 1840, was Minister of Public Instruction. Reappointed on Oct. 20, he was the 1, 1840, was Minister of Public Instruc- 1832, and from March 13, 1839, to March the Jesuits in 1844. About the end of that year ill-health forced him to forbear all mental labor, but in 1847 he had wholly recovered. After the establishment of the empire, Villemain resigned all his appointments save his place in the Academy, to which he had been elected in 1821. He died May 8, 1870.
Academy, to which he had been elected VILLIERS commonly styled MARQUES DE, a Spanish poet; born in 1384. He wrote: "The Troubadour's Art"; "The Art of Carvpoet; born in 1384. He wrote: "The commonly styled MARQUES DE, a Spanish VILLENA, ENRIQUE DE ARAGON, ing"; "The Labors of Hercules" (1483); "Treatises on Consolation"; "Fascinology" (on the evil eye); "On Leprosy." "Divine Comedy." He died in Madrid, Spain, Dec. 15, 1434.
He also translated the Æneid and the JEAN BAPTISTE SILVESTRE DE, a VILLENEUVE, PIERRE CHARLES French naval officer; born in 1763; entered the navy in 1777. He led the rear French naval officer; born in 1763; en-