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FREMONT, JOHN CHARLES (1813-1890) [A?], an Ameri- 

 can general and explorer. His father was a Frenchman who was cap- 

 tured by the British during the latter part of the i8th century. He 

 was an orphan at the age of 5. 



FRESNEL, AUGUSTIN JEAN (1788-1827), a French physicist, 

 son of an architect. He had two younger brothers, one of whom 

 was an engineer and the other of whom was an orientalist. 



FROEBEL, FRIEDRICH (1782-1852), a German educator, 

 founder of the kindergarten system of schools. He was youngest son 

 of a clergyman who died in 1802. His mother died in his infancy. 



FROISSART, JEAN (1337-1410), a French chronicler and poet, 

 son of a heraldic painter. 



FROUDE, JAMES ANTHONY (1818-1894), an English his- 

 torian, youngest [ ?] son of Robert Hurrell Froude, archdeacon of 

 Totness. 



FROUDE, WILLIAM, (1810-1879), an English engineer, fourth 

 son of archdeacon Froude and an elder brother of the preceding. 



FULTON, ROBERT (1765-1815), an American inventor. He 

 was an orphan at the age of 3. Had cousin 32 years older. 



GAINSBOROUGH, THOMAS (1727-1788) [A?], an English 

 landscape and portrait painter, youngest of nine children of John 

 Gainsborough. 



GALILEO (1564-1642) [31], an Italian philosopher and mathe- 

 matician, son of Vincenzo Galilei (1533-1591), who was also a phil- 

 osopher, a man of learning and the author of a number of treatises on 

 music. 



GALL, FRANZ JOSEPH (1758-1828), a German physician, the 

 founder of phrenology. 



GALLATIN, ALBERT (1761-1849), a Swiss- American states- 

 man, son of Jean Gallatin, who was a Geneva merchant and councillor 

 of state. He was an orphan in infancy. 



GAMBETTA, LEON (1838-1882), a French statesman, son of a 

 grocer. 



