Giorgione
GIORGIO BARBAREL- LI (jōr-jō'ne), an Italian painter; born in Constelfranco about 1477. Several of his oil paintings have been preserved, and are at once recognizable by the firmness of touch, vividness of coloring, and the striking tone of relief which they display. The Museum at Paris contains four of his works, viz.: "Salome Receiving the Head of John the Baptist"; "Jesus Sitting on His Mother's Knees"; "The Rural Concert"; and "Gaston de is a picture of Foix." His chef-d'œuvre "Christ Carrying His Cross," preserved at Venice. He died in Venice, in 1511.
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Giotto
properly AMBRO- GIOTTO or ANGIOLOTTO BONDONE, an Italian painter; born in Vespignano, in 1266; and in his boyhood tended cattle. But having been seen by Cimabue, as he his sheep upon was drawing figures of a piece of slate, that artist carried him to Florence and taught him painting. Among his most celebrated pieces is the "Navicella" at Rome, a picture of Peter walking upon the waves, some fresco paintings at Florence, also the history of St. Francis, at Assisi, and several miniatures. He was equally successful as a statuary and architect. He died in Florence in 1336.
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Gipsywort
or GYPSYWORT, a labiate plant, with dense whorls of flowers, white, with purple dots. It is about two feet high, and grows in ditches and by river banks.
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Girard
a town of Ohio, in Trumbull It is on the Erie , Baltimore and Ohio, and the Pennsylvania railroads. Its industries include the manufacture of iron and steel products, leather, and chewing gum. Pop. ( 1910) 3,736; (1920) 6,556. 20) philanthropist; was born near Bordeaux,
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Girard
STEPHEN , an American France, May 24, 1750. In 1769 he settled established the Second National Bank, as a trader in Philadelphia, where he and advanced several millions to the United States treasury during the War of 1812. In the yellow fever epidemic in hospitals; and in public matters his gen- 1793 he nursed many of the sick in the erosity bequests he left $7,500,000 for the erection and maintenance in Philadelphia of ity was remarkable. Among other died in Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 26, 1831. a college for male white orphans. He
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Girard College
an institution in Philadelphia, Pa., for the education of poor white orphan boys; founded under the will of Stephen Girard, and opened Jan. 1, 1848. By a provision in the will no ecclesiastic, missionary, or minister of any sect whatever is to have any connection with the college. In 1919 it reported: Professors and instructors, about 100; students , 1,540; volumes in the library, about 25,000; endowment and plant, $40,000,000 ; president, Cheesman A. Herrick, Ph. D., LL LL. D.
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Girard, Jean-Baptiste
A Jesuit born at Pôle in 1680, much persecuted by the Jansenists. They accused him of having seduced a girl named Catherine Cadière, who showed symptoms of possession, and had to be sent to a convent of Ursulines at Brest. His enemies found it impossible to implicate him in the affair, and the parliament of Aix, before which he was tried, were forced to acquit him.
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Girard, Stephen
je-rard', Stephen (1750-1831), the founder of Girard College, Philadelphia. He was a native of Bordeaux, France. In 1769 he came to Philadelphia. He formed a partnership with a brother and engaged in the West India trade, largely rum and molasses. He was one of the stockholders in the United States Bank. When Jackson removed the deposits the bank kept on in business under the name of Girard Bank. Girard was an eccentric man, gruff and hot-tempered, but in time of public trouble, as yellow fever epidemic, he was kindly, open handed, and regardless of personal exposure. He left $5,000,000 to found a school for poor white boys. This school, known as Girard College, now has $16,000,000 worth of property and an income of $1,000,000 a year. There are sixty-seven instructors and 1,700 students. By a singular provision of the will, no clergyman of any sect whatever is to have any connection with the college. Negroes, also, are forever excluded from the college. 2026 Editor's Note: This page uses language about race that was commonplace when the book was published and is offensive by today's standards. The text has been left exactly as it was printed, rather than cut or softened, so that the historical record — including how ordinary such language once was — is preserved. (Ed: BR 2026-07-22)
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Girgeh
a town of Egypt, on the Nile, 10½ miles N. of the ancient Abydus. It was here that the discontented Mamelukes rallied against Mehemet Ali. Outside the town is a Roman Catholic monastery, said to be the oldest in Egypt.
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Girondist
or GIRON- DIN (-ron'din); the name of a great political party in France; one of the most powerful factors in the earlier part of the first French Revolution. When the Legislative Assembly met in 1791, it was found to contain representatives of the upper, the middle, and the lower classes. The Girondists were the party of the middle classes, and were republican in sentiment. They obtained their designation from the fact that their most celebrated leaders, Vergniaud, Guadet, and Gensonné, were members for the department of the Gironde, originally . lawyers in the law court of Bordeaux In 1791 they were the most powerful party in the Assembly, and for a time shaped the policy of their country. When conservative Europe threatened France with invasion, it was the Girondists who, in April, 1792, declared war, the Jacobins deprecating hostilities, as fearing the result. To overcome their monarchic rivals, the Girondists coquetted with the last-named party, and found that they had gained, not a servant, but a master. The quarrel betwe tween the two arose after the massacres perpetrated in August and September, 1792, and the extreme revolutionists ultimately prevailing, an armed mob on May 31, 1793, assailed the Convention, and demanded the imprisonment of 29 Girondist deputies. These were arrested on June 2, and 21 of them were guillotined on Oct. 31. Others were subsequently put to death; a few escaping, reappeared in the Convention after the fall of Robespierre.
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