REMIREMONT 



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RENAISSANCE 



Remiremont. Town of France. 

 It stands on the left bank of the 

 Moselle in the dept. of Vosges, and 

 its manufactures include cotton, 

 hosiery, and boots and shoes. The 

 chief building is the abbey church, 

 mainly of the 14th century, al- 

 though it has an older crypt. Of 

 the other abbey buildings the 

 palace of the abbess was made into 

 the municipal headquarters, and 

 was rebuilt on the original plan in 

 the 19th century, but some of the 

 houses of the canonesses remain. 



The town was founded about 800, 

 and about 1100 the nuns from an 

 abbey, founded on a hill near by 

 S. Romaric, removed here, and 

 their house soon became wealthy 

 and famous. The abbess, who was 

 strong enough in the 16th century 



Remiremont, France. The Town Hall, formerly 

 palace of the abbesses 



to carry on a war with the duke of 

 Lorraine, was a princess of the 

 empire, and the 50 canonesses 

 were all of noble birth. The house 

 was suppressed at the Revolution. 

 The town is surrounded by hills, 

 and is in the area which before 

 1919 was protected by the for- 

 tifications of the Moselle. Long 

 part of Lorraine, it was joined to 

 France in 1766. Pop. 10,500. 



Remount Establishment. De- 

 partment of the British war office 

 concerned with the maintenance 

 of the supply of horses for the 

 army. It is controlled under the 

 Q.M.G.'s department by the di- 

 rector of remounts. Mobilisation 

 includes horses as well as men, and 

 in addition to the large numbers 

 automatically available from pri- 



bons, etc. The 

 buildings include 

 churchesand tech- 

 nical schools. 

 Remscheid was 

 founded about 

 1100, and its in- 

 dustries estab- 

 lished by Protest- 

 ant refugees from 

 France and Hol- 

 land in the 17th 

 century. Their 

 great develop- 

 ment, however, 

 dates from the 

 opening of the 

 Westphalian coal- 

 field in the 19th 

 century. Pop. 72,000. 

 Remus. Twin brother of Ro- 

 . m u 1 u s, the le- 

 gendary founder 

 of Rome. See 

 ,, Romulus. 



Remusat, 

 CHARLES FRAN- 

 COIS MARIE, 

 COMTE DE (1797- 

 1875). French 

 philosopher and 

 statesman. Born 

 inParis,March 14, 

 1797, the son of 

 Auguste Laurent, 

 comte de Remu- 

 sat (1762-1823), 

 one of Napoleon's 

 chamberlains, he 

 studied law, and 

 published various political and 

 critical articles at an early age. 



the 



Remscheid Prussia. Park and lake of Talsperre, in the 

 vicinity of the town 



Influenced in youth by Guizot, h 

 became a deputy, 1830, and was 

 minister of the interior under 

 Thiers, 1840. His works include 

 Essais de Phi- 

 losophic, 1842: 

 Sur la Philo- 

 sophic Alle- 

 mande, 1845 ; 

 Abelard, 1845; 

 S. Anselme, 

 1852; and 

 L'Histoire de 

 la Philosophic 

 Comte de Remusat, Anglaise de- 

 French philosopher puis Bacon 



a Locke, 1875. Admitted to 

 the Academic Fran9aise, 1846, 

 he was exiled by Napoleon III, 

 1851-59, held office again under 

 Favre, 1871-73, and died in Paris, 

 June 6, 1875. See Thiers, Guizot, 

 Remusat, J. F. Simon, 1885. 



THE RENAISSANCE 



W. H, Hudson, M.A., Author of The Story o 

 the Renaissance and Professor W. R. Lethaby 



In connexion with this article, which contains a section on Renaissance 

 Architecture, see the biographies of the scholars of the Renaissance, e.g. 

 Colet ; Dante ; Erasmus ; More ; Petrarch ; and those of the painters of 

 the period. See also Humanism; the histories of the various coun- 

 tries, England; France; Italy; etc., and the article Reformation 



The Renaissance (Fr. from re, 

 again; naitre, to be born) may 

 broadly be defined, in Jebb's 

 phrase, as " the whole process of 

 transition in Europe from the 

 medieval to the modern order." In 

 a restricted sense the Renaissance 

 means the revived study, in the 

 new secular as contrasted with the 



stantinople lectured on Greek at 

 the university of Florence, 1396, 

 and afterwards taught in other 

 Italian cities. Henceforth classical 

 studies were pursued by the new 

 generation of humanists with grow- 

 ing enthusiasm, to which a further 

 impetus was given when, on the 

 capture of Constantinople by the 



vate ownership, purchases are old monkish spirit, of the literature Turks, 1453, many Greek scholars 



made in all horse-breeding coun- 

 tries. In peace time the depart- 

 ment provides a reserve of horses 

 to supply wastage in the cavalry, 

 artillery, and other branches. 



Remscheid. City of Prussia, in 

 the Rhine province. It is 49 m. from 

 Cologne and 6 from Elberfeld, and 

 is an important industrial centre, 

 its works including rolling mills, 

 machine shops, and factories for 

 making iron and steel tools, rib- 



of classical antiquity. 



This revival of learning, as it is 

 also called, was itself a chief agent 

 in the emancipation of the mind 

 of man from the trammels of effete 

 dogmatism, and in the creation of 

 a fresh intellectual atmosphere and 

 of fresh ideals of life. It may be 

 said to have begun in Italy with 

 Petrarch and Boccaccio. But the 

 real movement dates from the time 

 when Manuel Chrysoloras of Con- 



sought asylum in Italy. 



Quest for the long-buried trea- 

 sures of Greek and Latin literature 

 now became a passion ; monas- 

 teries were ransacked for manu- 

 scripts ; and the recovered texts 

 were collated and edited by eager 

 scholars, and reproduced first by 

 copyists and later by the printing- 

 press, a great factor in the devel- 

 opment of humanism. An import- 

 ant part was played by the famous 



