Richebourg
JULES ÉMILE, a French dramatist; born in 1833, in Meuvy, Haute Marne. In 1850 he made his first appearance in Paris and after a short experience in a commercial house, obtained a place on the staff of "Figaro." He produced, in 1862, a five-act drama, "Nights in the Place Royale." In the folowing year he was yet more successful, with a comedy vaudeville called "A Modern Household." His first successful novel, "Lucienne," appeared appeared in 1858, and from that time he turned out many melodramatic tales. He became literary and dramatic critic of "Le Petit Journal," a member of the Directory of the Société des Gens de Lettres, and a knight of the Legion of Honor. He died in Bougival, France, Jan. 26, 1898.
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Richelieu (II)
LOUIS FRANCOIS AR- MAND DU PLESSIS, DUC DE, a Marshal of France, descended from the same family as the Cardinal; born in 1696. After the death of Louis XIV., he was admitted into the court of the Regent; the Duc d'Orleans and he largely participated in its profligacy. He was sent to the Bastille in 1716, for fighting a duel with the Comte de Gacé, and again in 1719, as an accomplice with the Spanish ambassador in a conspiracy against the Regent. He distinguished himself under Villars, and afterward at Kehl, Philipsburg, Dettingen, and Fontenoy; conquered Minorca, forced the Duke of Cumberland to submit to the capitulation of Klosterseven, and devastated the electorate of Hanover. In 1781, he obtained the rank of dean of the French marshals; and he concluded his long career, varied with acts of heroism and villainy, in 1788.
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Richepin
JEAN, a French poet and novelist; born in Médéah, Algiers, Feb. 4, 1849. He first attracted attention by his volume of poems "The Song of the Beggar" (1876), which sent him to prison where he wrote "Curious Deaths" (1887). A most audacious writer, he was faithful to his principles, or the lack of them. They include: "Caresses" (1877); "Blasphemies" (1884); and "The Sea" (1886), in verse; "Mme. André" (1878); "Brave Men" (1888); "The Cadet" (1890); "La route d'émeraude" (1909); the dramas "Monsieur Scapin" (1886); "The Filibuster" (1888); and "By the Sword" (1892). He was elected to the French Academy in 1908.
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Richmond
VIRGINIA TRINITY CHURCH, NEWPORT, R. I. CITY OF RIGA
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Richmond
a city in Victoria, Australia, constituting a suburb of the city of Melbourne. It is situated in Bourke co., and is one of the pleasantest of the metropolitan suburbs, having numerous parks and public gardens. There are a number of prosperous industries in the city. Pop. about 40,000.
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Richmond
CHARLES ALEXAN- DER, an American New York City in 1862. He was edueducator, born in cated at the College of the City of New York , Princeton University, and Princeton Theological Seminary, and received honorary degrees from American universities. In 1888 he was number of a ordained Presbyterian minister. After serving as pastor of churches in East Aurora, N. Y., and Albany, N. Y., he became, in lege and chancellor of Union University, 1909, president of Union Col- Schenectady, N. Y. In 1916 he was president of the New York State College Presidents' Association.
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Richmond (City and county-seat of Wayne)
a city and county-seat of Wayne co., Ind.; on the Whitewater river, and on the Chesapeake and Ohio of Indiana, the Grand Rapids and Indiana, the Ohio Electric, and the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis railroads; 69 miles E. of Indianapolis. The Friends have the institutions, Earlham College and Friends' Academy. The city is also the place of the Yearly Meeting of the Orthodox Friends of Indiana. It has electric street railroads, gas and electric lights, waterworks, State Hospital for the Insane, Reid Memorial Hospital, a high school, National and private banks, and a number of daily, weekly, and monthly periodicals. Richmond has many industries, including flour and lumber mills, and manufactories of clothing, paper bags, paper, pianos, tile, automobiles, office furniture, desks, church furniture, boilers, traction engines, steam engines, carriages and wagons, bicycles, lawn mowers, plows, threshing machines, grain drills, etc. The city was founded by a colony of Friends in 1815. Pop. (1910) 22,324; (1920) 26,765.
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Richmond (City of California in Contra)
a city of California, in Contra Costa co. It is on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fé and the Southern Pacific railroads. Its situation on the west side of San Francisco Bay, with a frontage of 6 miles of deep water, make it an excellent shipping point. It is the center of the oil region of the Pacific coast, and is the terminus of the Standard Oil pipe lines. It contains large oil refineries. Its other industries include railway repair shops, pipe and steel works, porcelain factories, brick works, foundries, stone quarries, etc. The city has a park, a library, excellent school buildings, and a city hall. Pop. (1910) 6,802; (1920) 16,843.
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Richmond (County-seat of Madison co Ky)
county-seat of Madison co., Ky.; 25 miles S. E. of Lexington. It is famous as the scene of one of the fiercest battles of the Civil War. The Confederate general, E. Kirby Smith, in command of 18,000 troops, attacked a much larger Union army under command of Gens. M. D. Manson and William Nelson, and after a three hours' battle utterly defeated the Union forces, whose loss, including killed, wounded and prisoners, was 5,000. The town contains the Central University and the Madison Female Institute. Pop. (1910) 5,340; (1920) 5,622.
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Richmond College
a coeducational institution in Richmond, Va.; founded in 1832, under the auspices of the Baptist Church; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 20; students, 300; president, F. W. Boatwright, LL. D. RICHMOND, GRACE S., an Ameri. can author, born at Pawtucket, R. I. She was educated at the Syracuse, N. Y., High School, and by private tutors. Besides many short stories contributed to magazines, she wrote "The Indifference of Juliet" (1905); "The Second Violin" (1906); "With Juliet in England" Go (1907); "Around the Corner in Gay Street" (1908); Christmas Day_in the Morning" (1908); "A Court of Inquiry" (1909); "Red Pepper Burns" (1910); "Strawberry Acres" (1911); "Mrs. Red Pepper" (1913); "The Twenty- Fourth of June" (1914); "Under the Country Sky" (1916); "Red Pepper's Patients" (1917); "The Brown Study" (1917); and "Red and Black" (1919).
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