QUERETARO 



Queretaro. Interior state of 

 Mexico. Part of the plateau of 

 Anahuac, it is seated between 

 Hidalgo and Guanajuato, and 

 covers an area of 3,556 sq. m. The N. 

 part is mountainous, but elsewhere 

 there are fertile valleys producing 

 maize, fruit, sugar, and cotton. 

 Mining is carried on. Pop. 247,000. 



Queretaro. City of Mexico. 

 Capital of the state of the same 

 name, it stands on a plateau 6.170 

 ft. high, 110 m. 

 N.W. of Mexico 

 City on the Na- 

 tional Rly. Water 

 is brought to the 

 city by. a Spanish 

 aqueduct of 74 

 arches, 80 ft. high. 

 T"he movement 

 for independence 

 began at Quere- 

 taro, and here, in 

 1867, the emperor 

 Maximilian was 

 shot. The Maxi- 

 milian chapel was 

 erected in 1901. 

 Pop. 33,000. 



Querfurt. Town of Prussia, in 

 Saxony. Situated on the Querne, 

 a tributary of the Saale, on the 

 branch rly. to Merseburg, it pos- 

 sesses a Romanesque church and 

 a castle dating from the 14-15th 

 centuries. There are sugar . re- 

 fineries, cotton factories, breweries, 

 and a horse market. Before 1635 

 Querfurt was the capital of a little 

 independent state. In 1635 it be- 

 came part of Saxony and in 1815 

 part of Prussia. Pop. 4,900. 



Quern (A.S. cweorn, akin to 

 corn). Primitive gram-mill, usually 

 of stone. In neolithic times early 



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13, 1917, the Austrians were re- 

 pulsed by the Italians, but the 

 village subsequently fell to them. 

 On Oct. 30, 1918, the British and 

 Italians entered it. See Piave, 

 Battles of the. 



Quesnay, FRANCOIS (1694- 

 1774). French economist. Born 

 June 4, 1694, at Mere, in the dept. 

 of Seine-et-Oise, the son of a small 

 landed proprietor, he came to Paris 

 and studied surgery and medicine, 



Queretaro, Mexico. Fait of the ancient Spanish aqueduct 

 which supplies the city with water 



becoming court physician to Louis 

 XV in 1752. He is best remembered 

 for his writings on political econ- 

 omy. His Ta- , -, 

 bleaux Econo- 

 miques, pub- 

 lished at Ver- 

 sailles, 1758, 

 and redis- 

 covered, 1890, 

 made him the 

 leader of the 

 Physiocrats 

 (q.v. ). Adam 

 Smith in The 

 Wealth of 



Francois Quesnay, 

 French economist 



French author 



Quern, a primitive form of grain-mill 



Egypt, Palestine (Deut. xxiv, 6),. 

 ancient Mexico (metate) an oval 

 grinder was rubbed upon a saddle- 

 stone. Irish bullans and rock- 

 basins mark the transition to the 

 pair of disks, the nether with a 

 vertical spindle engaging in a 

 funnel-shaped hole through the 

 upper, rotated by a wood handle. 

 The word is in the name of some 

 old London churches, e.g. S. 

 Michael -le-Querne (corn market). 



Quero. Village of Belluno, N. 

 Italy. It is on the Piave, about 

 12 m. S. of Feltre. Here on Nov. 



After Vigneron 



Nations ( Book iv,ch. 9) devotes con- 

 siderable space to Quesnay's theory. 

 Quesnay contributed articles to the 

 Encyclopedic. His collected works 

 were published by A. Oncken, 1888. 

 He died Dec. 16, 1774. See Political 

 Economy. Pron. Kay-nay. 



Quesnay de Beaurepaire, 



JULES (b. 1838). 

 and judge. Born 

 at Saumur, he 

 turned to the law 

 after some expe- 

 rience as a jour- 

 nalist, and be- 

 came successively 

 avocat-general in 

 Paris and, in 1893, 

 president of the 

 court of cassation. 

 He was particu- 

 larly prominent 

 during the Bou- 

 langist agitation. 

 He resigned in 

 1899 on account 

 of disagreement 

 with his col- 

 leagues over the 



Pasquier Quesnel, 

 French theologian 



QUEST 



reinvestigated Dreyfus case. Qnes- 

 nay's works, mostly issued under 

 the pen-name of Jules de Glouvct, 

 include Histoire du Vieux Temps, 

 1805, new ed. 1889. 



Quesnel, PASQUIER (1634-1719). 

 French theologian. Born in Paris, 

 July 15, 1634, and educated at the 

 Sorbonne, he 

 entered the 

 Congregat i o n 

 of the Oratory 

 in 1657, and 

 was ordained 

 priest in 1659. 

 The Jansenist 

 tone of the 

 first part o f 

 his Reflexions 

 morales sur le 

 Nouveau Testament, 1671, and the 

 Gallicanism of his edition of the 

 works of Leo the Great won for 

 him the enmity of the Jesuits. Re- 

 fusing, in 1684, to sign the anti- 

 Jansenist formula, he had to flee to 

 Brussels, where the first collected 

 edition of the Reflexions appeared 

 in 1687. Quesnel was imprisoned 

 in 1703, but escaped to Amsterdam, 

 where he resided until his death, 

 Dec. 2, 1719. An English edition 

 of the Reflexions appeared in 1719- 

 25. See Les Derniers Jansenistes, 

 L. Seche, 1891. Pron. Kaynel. 



Quesnoy. Name of several 

 villages of France prominent in the 

 Great War. Those in the depts. of 

 Nord and Pas-de-Calais are usually 

 known as Le Quesnoy (q.v.). 

 Quesnoy-sur-Deule is 6 m. N.W. of 

 Lille, on the Lille- Ypres road. 

 Quesnoy-en-Santerre is in the dept. 

 of Somme, and is so called because 

 it is on the Santerre plateau. It 

 lies slightly N. of the Amiens- 

 Roye road, 4 m. W. of the latter. 

 See Somme, Battles of the. 



Quest. British exploration ship. 

 Built in Norway, 1917, of oak.pine, 

 and fir, she was specially con- 

 structed for voyaging in Arctic 

 waters, and was at first used as a 



Quest. The vessel in which the Shackleton-1 

 Antarctic expedition sailed, Sept. 24, 1921 



