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introduced. The Joint Select Committee on 

 Female Suffrage reported on the subject. ^ The 

 House of Representatives rejected the bill by 

 a vote of yeas 82, nays 102 ; and the Senate 

 concurred with the Lower House in its rejec- 

 tion. For the Centennial Exhibition of 1875 

 $25,000 was appropriated, which is $15,000 

 less than the amount recommended for that 

 purpose by the special committee appointed 

 to consider that subject. 



The Supreme Court of Connecticut was .called 

 upon to decide the question whether the pro- 

 vision in the license law, which makes the 

 granting of licenses for the sale of intoxicating 

 liquors to depend on the option of the citizens 

 residing in the place where such licenses are 

 to take effect, was constitutional or unconsti- 

 tutional ; the court in July, 1875, decided that 

 it was constitutional. 



At the general election held on the 4th of 

 October, 1875, the two amendments to the 

 State constitution, before mentioned, were 

 presented to the people for their adoption or 

 rejection. Both of the amendments were 

 adopted by a very large majority, the first 

 amendment much more emphatically than the 

 second. In Litchfield County only, which gave 

 the smallest vote, the second amendment was 

 rejected, the vote having been yeas 239, nays 

 352 ; while on the first amendment the vote in 

 the same county stood yeas 578, nays 13. 



COQUEREL, ATHANASE JOSUE, a French 

 Protestant pastor and author, was born at Am- 

 sterdam in 1820, and died at Paris in July, 1875. 

 He was the son of the late Athanase L. 0. Co- 

 querel, who died in 1868. First known as the 

 editor of the Lien, and afterward of the Nou- 

 velle Revue de Theologie, he at length attained 

 some notoriety by the rationalistic doctrines 

 he advocated. By reason of some views which 

 he expressed in favor of M. Renan's " Vie de 

 Je"sus," he was, in May, 1855, suspended from 

 his functions by the Consistory of Paris, but the 

 Consistory of Anduze (Gard) at the same time 

 voted him an address of sympathy. With the 

 aid of the Protestant Liberal Union he re- 

 sumed his duties. He was decorated with the 

 cross of the Legion of Honor August 14, 1862, 

 and was the author of several works, the most 

 important of which are, two series of "Ser- 

 mons et Homelies" (1858); "La Saint-Bar- 

 thelemy" (1860); " Le Catholicisme et le 

 Protestantisme " (1864). M. Coquerel spent 

 the winter of 187l-'72 in the United States on 

 a preaching and lecturing tour in aid of the 

 suffering citizens of Paris at the close of the 

 Franco-Prussian War. 



COROT, JEAN BAPTISTE CAMILLE, a distin- 

 guished French artist, died in Paris, February 

 23, 1875. He was born in Paris, July 20, 1796. 

 His father was an official, his mother a dealer 

 in ladies' dresses. The son, after spending a few 

 years at a school in Rouen, was placed with a 

 cloth-merchant, but, instead of learning the 

 trade, he would draw from models in secret. 

 When this was discovered, young Corot was 



COROT, JEAN B. C. 



sent to the studio of Michallon who taught 

 him to sketch from Nature with all possible 

 exactness. He also studied under Bertin. The 

 first money he earned he spent on a journey 

 to Rome in 1826. In the following year he 

 painted his first picture for the exhibition, a 

 view of Narni. In Italy he busied himself in 

 rapid notation of effects and drawing of 

 masses. The studies he made in Italy were, as 

 critics think, wrought into rather too many of 

 his later pictures. On returning from the South 

 he wandered through France and finally fixed 

 himself at Ville d'Avray, in the valley of the 

 Seine. One of his early successes was a little 

 landscape painted there, but he remained in 

 comparative obscurity and poverty for fifteen 

 years in that place. During this time his pict- 

 ures sold for sixty and one hundred francs. 

 At length, in 1847, Louis Philippe bought one 

 of his pictures and give him the cross of the 

 Legion of Honor. He now became better 

 known ; and yet as late as 1853 a picture of 

 his sold for no more than 135 francs. From 

 this date, however, his works rapidly increased 

 in value and are now sold at 10,000 and 15,000 

 francs. His struggle with poverty was long ; he 

 did not make a comfortable living until he was 

 sixty years old. To the last he dressed like a 

 peasant, and was simple and plain in his man- 

 ners. He had his portrait taken representing 

 him with an old pipe in his mouth. He was 

 at once tall and strong, yet genial and compan- 

 ionable. Among younger artists he was called 

 "Father Corot," and was known for his gen- 

 erosity, lending them hundreds of his best 

 painted studies. Ultimately they made him a 

 grateful return; for when, a few years since, 

 the Art-committee gave the first prize to Ge- 

 r6me, a number of artists exclaimed against 

 the injustice done Corot, and started a subscrip- 

 tion for conferring upon him a gold medal, and 

 presented it to him but a short time before his 

 death. He is the acknowledged originator of 

 that style of landscape which has been so suc- 

 cessfully followed by Diaz, Troyon, Rousseau, 

 and others. As a man Corot was generous to 

 the poor. He gave liberally to needy young 

 artists; and his last act was to send 10,000 

 francs to the widow of his old friend Millet, 

 who had passed away little more than a month 

 before him. Among the most noticeable pict- 

 ures by Corot are, two " Views of Italy," which 

 formed a part of the gallery of the Duke of 

 Orleans; another " View of Italy " (1834), in 

 the gallery of Douai ; " Souvenir of the Vicin- 

 ity of Florence" (1839), in the gallery at Metz; 

 "Dance of Nymphs," in the gallery of Luxem- 

 bourg ; " Christ in the Garden of Olives" (1849), 

 in the gallery at Langres ; " Sunset in the 

 Tyrol" (1850), in the gallery of Marseilles; 

 " Souvenir of Marcoussy," bought by Napoleon 

 III. ; " Morning ; " " Evening " (1855) ; "The 

 Burning of Sodom ; " "A Nymph flying with 

 a Cupid ; " "A Concert ; " " Sunset " (1857) ; 

 " Dante and Virgil ; " " Macbeth ; " "An 

 Idyl;" "The Italian Tyrol;" "Studies at 



