Leconte De Lisle
2026 Editor's Note: This page uses language about other peoples, religions, or nationalities 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: ET 2026-07-22) CHARLES tan Assist MARIE RENÉ ( le - kôngt'duh lēl ') French poet; born in the Isle of bon (Réunion), Oct. 23, 1818. Settling in Paris (1846), he was at first UGUSTE gitator; thusiastic an socialist and disciple 1807 e made a Fourier; afterward an impassioned anjourna mirer of the ancient religions of and ( 1853 India), he. sings In his the praises " Antique Poems ined a g cient gods of the ratic agita and heroes; in his "Barbarian gmen's pa Poems " ( 1862), with a poet's insight eputy for i e revoluti seeks to interpret the mythological the of Poems " Hebrews ( 1882),, Irish were, etc. His " er of the crowned by inister of French Academy. He made admirable translations ected one of ancient Grecian poets e Constitu rim gover He July died 17, 1894 in. Louveciennes, near Paris pporters, d rasigne
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Lecouvreur
ADRIENNE (luh- ADRIENNE (luh- , and kö-vrur'), a French actress; born near ach actress; born near the Châlons, France, April 5, 1692, made April 5, 1602, made . her début at Strasburg in 1717, and soon sburg in 1717, and soon navigbecame famous for her power as an acher power as an acmouth tress, and the number and eminence of ber and eminence of deher admirers, among whom were Marshal whom were Marshal the Saxe, Voltaire, and Lord Peterborough. Her death, in Lord Peterborough. Paris, March 20, 1730, was March 20, 1730, was unjustly suspected to be due to poison to poison ed to be due to administered by a rival, the Duchess rival, the Duchess born Bouillon. This is the plot of the play by the plot of the play by 1838. Scribe and Legouvé, in which Rachel, which Rachel, College Bernhardt, etc., won distinction. cinction. and
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Ledochowski
COUNT WLADI- OUNT WLADI- Public MIR HALKA, General of Society of Jesus. of Society of Jeessays He was born in 1866 at Loosdorf, 1866 at Loosdorf, . Lower Austria, and was educated at the as educated at the Rise Theresianum, Vienna. He studied law He studied law at the Cracovian University, 1885, and University, 1885, and History philosophy and theology in the Seminary neology in the Seminary to at Tarnov, and at the Gregorian Univer- Gregorian Univer- Hissity in Rome, 1885-1889. He entered the He entered the Cen- Novitiate of the Galician Province of the Jesuit lan Province of the ap- Society, 1889, was ordained priest as ordained priest He 1894; and after a short period of literary rt period of literary Rule. and pastoral activity, was nominated was nominated Provincial of the Galician Province 1901. ician Province 1901. In 1906 he became assistant of the Gerassistant of the German Assistancy and in 1915 General. and in 1915 General. , a Bour-
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Lee
FRANCIS LIGHTFOOT, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and a brother of Richard Henry Lee; born in Stratford, Va., Oct. 14, 1734. He died in Richmond, Va., April 3, 1797.
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Lee
GERALD STANLEY, an American author, born in Brockton , Mass., in 1862. He graduated from Middlebury College in 1885, and for three years following studied at the Yale Divinity School. He was ordained to the Congregational ministry in 1888 and was pastor of several churches in various parts of the country . He lectured widely on literature and art subjects. His published writings include "The Shadow Christ" (1896); " The Lost Art of Reading" (1902); "The Voice of the Machines" (1906); "The Lonely Nation" (1917); ; and "The Ghost in the White House" (1920).
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Lee (ALGERNON journalist born)
ALGERNON, journalist, born in Dubuque, Ia., in 1873. He was educated at the University of Minnesota. He became identified with the Socialist movement in 1895, and edited Socialist papers from 1898 1909. From the latter year he was educational director of the Rand School of Social Science, in New York. He was a delegate to many Socialist conventions and conferences.
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Lee (ANN founder of the Society)
ANN, founder of the Society of Shakers in America; born in Manchester, England, Feb. 29, 1736. She was poor and uneducated, and in 1758 joined the Shakers, a sect allied in their belief to the Friends. They practiced curious dances in which the whole body was shaken and thrown into strange postures. Anna Lee was married in 1762 to a blacksmith named Standerin, or Stanley. She believed herself inspired, and was imprisoned in 1770 for preaching the new doctrine of celibacy. În 1774 she emigrated to America and founded the Society of Shakers. She was greatly revered by her followers , and by them was called "Mother Ann." She died in Watervliet, N. Y., Sept. 8, 1784.
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Lee (CHARLES an American mili tary)
CHARLES, an American mili tary officer; born in Dernhall, Cheshire , England, in 1731. In 1775 he was made Major -General. He was captured by the British in 1776, and was exchanged in 1778. For disobedience of the orders of Washington at the battle of Monmouth in 1778, he was tried by courtmartial and sentenced to one year's suspension from the army, and afterward was altogether dismissed by Congress. He died at Philadelphia , Pa., Oct. 2, 1782. affairs in Cuba during the period immediately preceding the outbreak of the war with Spain. President McKinley having intended to send an additional message to Congress on April 6, 1898, the effect of which would have been an immediate outbreak of hostilities, Consul-General Lee cabled that he would not be able to secure the removal of American citizens from Cuba before the night of the 9th. The President thereupon withheld his message, and on the appointed evening the Americans in Cuba who wished to leave were all conveyed from the island. During the ensuing war with Spain he of was a Major-General of volunteers, serving in Cuba, and becoming at the close of hostilities military governor Havana. In 1900 he was made commander of the Department of the Missouri. He died April 28, 1905.
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