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Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

a small town and fortress in the extreme N. of the French department of Meurthe-et-Moselle, 18 miles W. S. W. of Luxemburg. The fortress capitulated to the Prussians in 1792, 1815, and 1871. During the World War the fortress was the first in France to be captured by the Germans. Pop. (1914) 9,700. LÖNNROT, ELIAS (luhn'rot), a great Finnish scholar and folklorist; born in 9, Sammatti, Nyland, Finland, April 1802. He studied medicine, and practiced for some years, but in 1853 was appointed to the chair of Finnish at the University of Helsingfors, from which he retired in 1862. Throughout his life he made journeys through Finland, Lapland, Russia, and Sweden, in poetry order to collect the remains of and tradition lingering among the people. He edited and published a colat Marignano, died 1516. CLAUDE, killed lection of Finnish folk-songs, "The Lyre" (1829-1831); the great Finnish national epic of the "Kalevala" (1835); "Lyric Art" (1840), a collection of lyrical folkpoetry; "Proverbs of the Finnish People" (1842); "Riddles of the Finnish People" (1844). His latest work was the great Finnish Dictionary (2 vols. 1866-1880). in He died Samm Sammatti, March 19, 1884. LONS - LE - SAUNIER (lông-luh-sōof nya), the c capital of the department epartment Jura, France, on the Vallière, about 75 miles N. E. of Lyons; the ancient brine-springs, to which the town owes its foundation and name, are still utilized for the extraction of salt and for medicinal purposes. Birthplace of Dumas and of Rouget de l'Isle, author of the "Marseillaise." Pop. about 12,000.