Carrel

Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

NICHOLAS ARMAND, a French_writer, born in Rouen, May 8, 1800. For some years he was an officer in the army, but later settled in Paris, and acquired a reputation as an essayist and contributor to the leading opposition papers. In 1830 he united with Thiers and Mignet in editing the "National," which soon rose to be the leading newspaper in opposition to the government of Charles X. After the revolution his colleagues joined the government of Louis Philippe, and he was left with the chief direction of the paper, which still continued in opposition. In 1832 the "National" became openly Republican, and enjoyed great popularity. Carrel was killed July 24, 1836, in a duel with Emile de Girardin. CARREÑO, TERESA (kär-ān'yō), a Venezuelan pianist, born in Caracas, Dec. 22, 1853. She was a pupil of Gottschalk and made her début in Europe in 1865. She made many successful tours in Europe and in the United States. She died in 1917. CARRÈRE, JOHN MERVEN, an American architect; born at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Nov. 9, 1858. His parents CARRHÆ were American, but he received his early education in Switzerland. He graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, in 1882, came to New York and in 1894 became a member of the firm of Carrère and Hastings. He soon achieved a reputation for the artistic merits of his work. His firm built the Ponce de Leon and Alcazar hotels at St. Augustine, Fla., the Edison Building, New York, and a host of other great structures in various cities of the country. At the time of his death, his firm was erecting the $8,- 000,000 Public Library Building in New York, the commission for which they had received in competition with some of the best known architects in the country. He died from an accident, March 1, 1911. CARRHÆ, the site of an ancient city in northwestern Mesopotamia, the Haran of the Bible.