GRES WARE 



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GREUZE 



Gres Ware. Variety of stone- 

 ware. The finer qualities are made 

 of a mixture of clay, quartz sand, 

 lime or barytes. Cologne gres was 

 celebrated. Pron. gray. 



land. Owing to its situation close 

 to the English border, it was con- 

 venient for runaway marriages, as 

 here couples from England could 

 take advantage of the ScQttish 



until 1856, when an Act made resi- 

 dence in Scotland for, at least, 21 

 days necessary in the case of one of 

 the parties. On the English side of 

 the Sark is the village of Gretna, 



Greta Hall, Cumberland, the home of Robei 

 for forty years 



Gretna Green in war time. The munition-making 

 township in which 16,000 workers were housed in huts 



Greta. River of Cumberland. 

 It is a tributary of the Derwent, 

 which it joins near Keswick. 

 Its length is 4 m. 

 Overlooking it is 

 Greta Hall, where 

 S o u t h e y lived 

 from 1803 until 

 his death in 1843, 

 and Coleridge from 

 1800 to 1809. 

 There are two 

 rivers of this name 

 in Yorkshire. One 

 is a tributary of 

 the Tees, while the 

 other rises near 

 Ingleton and falls 

 into the Lune. 



Gretna. Muni- 

 tions centre during 

 the Great War. In 

 1915 a cordite factory was opened 

 near to the village of Gretna Green. 

 Here a munition-making township 

 sprang up on a site which had hither- 

 to been bare farmland. The workers 

 numbered ultimately about 16,000. 

 Huts for their accommodation were 

 erected, and clubs, refreshment 

 rooms, and other buildings estab- 

 lished. The total capital expendi- 

 ture on building and equipment 

 was 9,230,143, the working cost 

 14,846,697, and the value of the 

 cordite produced 16,690,246. 



In 1920 it was decided to main- 

 tain Gretna as a centre for the 

 manufacture of explosives, and to 

 use, if possible, a part of its ether 

 plant for the conversion of alcohol 

 to ether, and the treatment of the 

 ether alcohol recovered. See Mu- 

 nitions. 



Gretna Green. Village of Dum- 

 friesshire, Scotland. It is 9 m. N. W. 

 of Carlisle, near the little river Sark 

 that divides England from Scot- 



marriage laws. The marriages were 

 usually celebrated by the black- 

 smith or innkeeper in his smithy or 



Gretna Green. The smithy where formerly clandestine 

 marriages were celebrated 



inn. The practice flourished from 

 1770, when an Act made hasty mar- 

 riages more difficult in England, 



Greuze. Psyche, the picture for- 

 merly called Sorrow, painted in 1786 



Wallace Collection 



with stations on the Cal. and Glas- 

 gow and S.W. Rlys. Pop. 1,200. 



Gretna Tavern. Model public 

 house near Carlisle, England. It 

 was the first started by the Central 

 Control Board in July, 1916. See 

 Carlisle ; Central Control Board. 



Gretry, ANDRE ERNEST MODESTE 

 (1741-1813). Belgian composer. 

 Born at Liege, Feb." 8, 1741, he be- 

 came a chorister in a church there 

 and when quite young produced 

 some symphonies: For seven years 

 he studied in Rome, and after- 

 wards, on the advice of Voltaire, 

 settled in Paris, where he passed 

 the greater part of his life. Gretry 

 devoted himself almost entirely to 

 the composition of comic operas, 

 upon the form of which he 

 exercised considerable influence, 

 but he also wrote some church 

 music. In France he became the 

 most popular composer of his day. 

 He died Sept. 24, 1813. 



Greuze, JEAN BAI-TISTE (1725- 

 1805). French painter. Born at 

 Tournus, near Macon, Aug.21, 1725, 

 he studied 

 under Charles f 

 Grandon(1691 j 

 -1762) of 

 Lyons. His 

 first exhibited 

 picture, A Fa- 

 ther Expound- 

 ing the Bible 

 to his Family, 

 gave promise 

 of a highly 

 successful ca- 

 reer, and in 

 1755 his Blind 

 Man Duped 

 secured his 

 election to the 

 Academy. A sojourn 



in Italy 



modified his style to some extent, 



