These 11 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Gautier, Gauze, Gavarnie.
An alchemist. Charles IX. of France , deceived by his promises, had him provided with a hundred and twenty thousand pounds, with which to make gold, and the adept set to work. But after he had worked for a week, he ran away with the King's money. He was pursued, captured, and hanged.
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THEOPHILE, a French poet and prose writer; born in Tarbes, France, Aug. 31, 1811. He studied at the College Charlemagne, Paris, and at first tried painting, but turned to literature. " he published: "Albertus" In verse (1830); "Comedy of Death" (1832); "Enamels and Cameos" (1856); his best poetry; etc. Of novels and short stories he wrote "Young France" (1833); "Mademoiselle de Maupin" (1835); "Fortunio" (1838); "A Tear of the Devil" (1839); "Militona" (1847); "The Tiger's Skin" (1852); ; "Jettatura" (1857); "Captain Captain Jenny" (1865); "Spirite" (1866); etc. For more than 30 years he contributed to the Paris newspapers criticisms on the theater and the salon. He wrote "Journey in Spain" (1843); "Zigzags" (1845); "Constantinople" (1854); "Journey in Russia" (1866); etc. "The Grotesque" (1844), on the writers of the 16th and 17th centuries; "Balzac" (1858); "Private Menagerie" (1869), biographical; "History of Romanticism" "(1872) "Liter- "Literary Portraits and Souvenirs" (1875); "The East" (1877), the last two being posthumous. He died in Paris, Oct 23, 1872.
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a light, transparent silk or cotton stuff. Gauzes have been occasionally made of thread, but the name has always signified a silk fabric.
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CASCADE waterfall in the Cirque de DE, a Gavarnie, Pyrenees. It is the second highest in Europe, being 1,385 feet in height.
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CIRQUE DE (sērk de), a natural amphitheater in the Pyrenees, 14 miles S. S. E. of Cauterets. It is 24 miles in width and 5,380 feet in height.
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a law or custom of inheritance by which the property of the parent is distributed to all the children alike. It is the general practice in civilized countries, save in parts of England and certain other districts where a desire to keep fine estates together as a whole has led to giving the chief part of a man's estate to his oldest son, according to the so-called law of primogeniture. According to one form of gavelkind all the sons come in for a share of the land, but the daughters are left out. Gavelkind is the common law of France and of Germany. It is still the law in many parts of Great Britain . In a rural community gavelkind results in many small farms. See France ; German Empire ; Inheritance
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PIERS (gä-ves-tôn), the favorite of Edward II., King of England. He was a Gascon by birth, and on account of his father's services to Edward I. was chosen companion to the Prince of Wales, over whom he acquired a complete and very mischievous ascendency, and breeding dissension between him and his father. Edward I. banished him in 1307, but dying the same year, Edward II. at once recalled him, made him Earl of Cornwall, and gave him in marriage his niece, Margaret de Clare. Intoxicated with his elevation and honors he exasperated the nobles. He was again banished, again recalled, and, the barons having declared war, was besieged in Scarborough castle, captured, and execиted near Warwick, June 19, 1312.
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ga'vi-al, a long-bodied, longnosed crocodile of India, with a hundred even teeth, and fleshy, horn-like nostrils at the end of the upper jaw. The gavial attains a length of ten to twenty feet, and is an unpleasant animal to look upon; but it is not dangerous to man or beast. It lives in the fresh waters of Borneo and India. It feeds on fish. It is to be distinguished from the man-eating crocodile. The stout snout of the Mississippi alligator is about twice as long as it is wide. The slender snout of the gavial is several times as long as it is wide. See Crocodile
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or GAVOT (gā-vot'), originally a dance of the gavots or people of Gap, in the department of the Upper Alps. Origin: French. The description of the dance, "a brisk round for as many as will," identifies it with the country dance. The gavotte seems to have been more popular as an instrumental piece than as a dance, and to have been a favorite movement in suites lessons, and sonatas from the latter part of the 17th century.
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JOHN, an English poet; born near Barnstaple, Devonshire, England, in 1685. He was apprenticed to a silk mercer in London. In 1713 he published his "Rural Sports." ." In 1712 he became secretary to Anne, Duchess of Monmouth. "Trivia, or the Art of Walking the Streets of London," appeared in the same year. In 1714 his caricature of Ambrose Philips's pastoral poetry was published, "The Shepherd's Week." He was appointed secretary to the Earl of Clarendon, in his embassy to the court of Hanover. In 1715 appeared his burlesque drama of "What d'ye Call it?" "Three Hours after Marriage," a farce, altogether failed. In 1720 he published his poems by subscription, in 1723 his tragedy, "The Captives," and in 1726 his well-known "Fables." His "Beggar's Opera," the notion of which seems to have been afforded by Swift, was first acted in 1727, at Lincoln's Inn Fields, where it ran for 63 nights, but the lordchamberlain refused to license for performance a second part entitled "Polly." The latter part of his life was spent in the house of the Duke of Queensberry, where he wrote his sonata "Acis and Galatea" and the opera "Achilles." He died in London, Dec. 4, 1732.
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WALTER, an American artist; born in Hingham, Mass., Jan. 22, 1856; was educated in Boston; studied art under Bonnat in Paris, where he was in frequent exhibitions. His paintings, which won many medals, include "Benedicite" (Bless ye), now in the Museum of Amiens, France, "Las Cigarreras" (The Cigarette Sellers), in the Luxembourg, Paris; and canvases in the Metropolitan Museum of Fine Arts, New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and several noted collections in Europe. pe. The French Government made him a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1894, and an officer of the order in 1906.
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