GUYON 



GWALIOR 



Madame Guyon, 

 French Quietist 



From a print 



early came under the influence of 

 Father Lacombe, a prominent 

 Quietist teacher. After her hus- 

 band's death 

 she began in 

 1676 to advo- 

 cate Quietism 

 in Savoy and 

 later at Paris. 

 In 1688 and 

 1695 she suffer- 

 ed terms of im- 

 prisonment for 

 teaching the 

 heresies of 

 M o 1 i n o s , 

 though she had the support of 

 Fenelon. She taught that the es- 

 sence of religion consisted in the 

 passive contemplation of God, and 

 that good deeds were of less mo- 

 ment. She died at Blois, June 9, 

 1717. See Mysticism; consult also 

 Poems, 1902 ; A Method of Prayer, 

 1904, ed. D. Macfayden. 



Guyon, RICHARD DEBAUFRE 

 (1803-56). British soldier in Hun- 

 garian and Turkish service. Born 



near Bath, COT^-^^^^^,- ~ 



March 3 1,1 803, | ** ' 



he entered the f 

 Austrian army, [^ 

 and reached | 

 the rank of |i 

 captain. H e V. 

 retired in 1839, 

 and settled in 

 Pest, but when 

 the Hungarian 

 rising broke 

 out in 1848 he commanded the 

 Hungarian landsturm. After the 

 victory of Schwechat in Oct., he 

 was put in command of a divi- 

 sion, and early in the following 

 year was promoted general. He 

 succeeded in raising the siege of 

 Komorn in April, 1849, but when 

 the Hungarians collapsed Guyon 

 escaped with Kossuth to Turkey. 

 Joining the Turkish army in 1852, 

 he fought against the Russians in 

 Anatolia during the war of 1855- 

 56, but died suddenly at Scutari, 

 Oct. 12, 1856. 



Guyot, YVES (b. 1843). French 

 writer and economist. Born at 

 Dinan, Sept. 6, 1843, he was edu- 

 c a t e d at 

 Rennes and 

 became a jour- 

 nalist. In 1868 

 he was ap- 

 pointed editor 

 of L'lnde- 

 pendant d u 

 Midi, but he 

 soon migrated 

 to Paris,wliere 

 he worked for 

 sevcralpapers and took partin public 

 life. As editor of Le Siecle between 

 1892 and 1903 he made himself a 

 force for political and social reform. 



Richard Guyon, 

 British soldier 



especially in his attacks on one aspect 

 of the police system, for which he 

 was imprisoned. In 1885 he was 

 returned to the Chamber of Depu- 

 ties, and 1889-98 he was minister 

 of public works. In 1909 he was 

 made editor of Le Journal des 

 Economistes. In 1920 he attended a 

 congress of free traders in London. 

 His writings include, to give them 



1912 and in 1913 respectively. 

 Among its distinguished teachers 

 have been Astley Cooper, Richard 

 Bright, Thomas Addison, and Wil- 

 liam Gull. Hodgkin was a lec- 

 turer, and Keats was at one time 

 a student at the hospital. There 

 is an excellent medical school at- 

 tached to the hospital. 

 Guzman Blanco, ANTONIO 



their English titles, The Comedy of (1828-99). Venezuelan statesman. 



r>.~*~,*: rpu~ a:^^ ~t v_ B orn at Caracas, Feb. 29, 1828, he 



became a lawyer and then a soldier, 

 fighting in the civil disturbances 

 of the time. From 1863-68 he was 



Protection ; The Science of Eco- 

 nomics ; Prostitution ; and The 

 Socialist Tyranny. Pron. Ghee-oh. 

 Guy's Cliffe. Estate on the 

 bank of the river Avon, 1 J m. from 

 Warwick, now the seat of Lord 

 Algernon Percy. 

 In the grounds are jp" 

 the cave said to ',j^ 

 have been hewn 

 for himself by Guy 

 of Warwick (ff.v.) 

 and the chapel of 

 S. Mary Magdalen, 

 founded to his 

 memory by Rich- 

 ard Beauchamp, 

 earl of Warwick (d. 

 1439), and contain- 

 ing a mutilated 

 statue of the hero. 

 There were hermit 

 residents at Guy's 

 Cliffe in the reigns 

 of Edward III and 

 Henry IV, and another occupant ot 

 the hermitage was John Rous the 

 antiquary (d. 1491), who was its 

 chantry priest, officiating daily in 

 the chapel. 



Guy's Hospital. London hos- 

 pital founded by Thomas Guy 

 (g.v.) in 1721. It has 647 beds, and 

 departments for 

 providing treat- 

 ment in all 

 branches of medi- 

 cine and surgery. 

 The Wills li- 

 brary was built in 

 1902, the Gordon 

 Guy's Hospital Museum in 1905. 

 arms i n 1919 new lab- 



oratories were built for the study 

 of chemistry and physics. New 

 departments of pathology and 

 pharmacology were established in 



vice-president of Venezuela, and in 

 1870, as the result of a revolution, 



Guy's CliSe. Warwickshire seat of Lord Algernon Percy 



became dictator of the country. 

 He was deposed in 1889, whilst he 

 was in Europe serving as envoy 

 to the Powers, one reason for his 

 fall being his corrupt methods of 

 making money. On the other hand 

 he did something for the education 

 and the general welfare of his coun- 

 try. Guzman Blanco died in Paris, 

 July 29, 1899. 



Gwalior. State of India. In 

 the Central India Agency, its area 

 is 25,133 sq. m. Of the lands under 

 state control about a quarter is 

 under cultivation, a quarter of this 

 being devoted to millet, other im- 

 portant crops being gram and 

 wheat. The forests are extensive 

 and full of wild animals. Minerals 

 include sandstone, limestone, mica, 

 and iron. The chief industry is 

 the manufacture of cotton goods. 



Gwalior, India. The palace, Gwalior City, begun in the early 16th century, a 

 magnificent example of Hindu architecture, seen from the fort 



