RICHEPIN 



RICHMOND 



of conscience, the crown was su- 

 preme. and France had established 

 her position as the first military 

 power in Europe. See Memoires, 

 4 vols., pub. sous la direction de 

 M. le Baron de Courcel, 1907-20 : 

 Histoire de Cardinal Richelieu, G 

 Hanotaux, 1893 ; Lives, R. Lodge. 

 1896 ; J. B. Eerkins, 1900. 



Richepin, JEAN (b. 1849 

 French poet, dramatist, and nove 

 ist. He was born at Medea, 

 Algiers, Feb. 4. 

 1849, fought 

 as a franc- 

 tireur in the 

 war of 1870, 

 and led a rov- 

 ing life before 

 turning to 

 literature. As 

 a poet he ha? 



been summed up as " frankly, 

 boldly, and insolently a romantic "; 

 in many of his stories he is a realist, 

 while in his earlier writing he dis- 



Richmond, Surrey, 

 aims 



After P."3 Champaigne 



S. by Petersham. It is famous for 

 its associations with royalty and 

 as the home of 

 many poets, 

 writers, and 

 painters, Chaucer, 

 Bacon, Sir W. 

 Temple, Thom- 



son, Pope, Swift and Stella, Sir 

 Joshua Reynolds, J. M. W. Turner, 

 and George Eliot among the num- 

 ber. Its pop. 

 has grown from 

 about 15.000 in 

 1876 to 36,000 

 in 1921. 



Originally 

 known as West 

 Sheen (A.S. 

 schene, shining) 

 and once a ham- 

 let of Kingston, 

 it owes its present name to Henry 

 VII, and has been a royal manor 

 since 1320. The manor house was 

 converted into a palace by Edward 

 III. Destroyed by fire in 1499, the 

 palace was rebuilt by Henry VII. 

 Elizabeth, once a prisoner here, died 

 in the palace, which was dismantled 

 in the 18th century. The remains 

 of the palace were restored, 1913- 

 19. The Old Deer Park is now 

 the venue of the Richmond Horse 

 Show, football, golf, hockey, and 

 other sports. The observatory, 

 1768, is used for meteorological 

 work. Near to it was a Carthusian 

 priory founded by Henry V. 

 Edmund Kean was lessee of a 

 theatre which stood near to the 

 Green. Maid of Honour Row was 

 built for the ladies uf Caroline's 



played a brutal coarseness which, 

 in the case of Chansons des Gueux, 

 1876, led to his being fined and im- 

 prisoned for an outrage against 

 manners. His many novels include 

 Les Morts Bizarres, 1876 ; Le Pave, 

 1883 ; La Miseloque, 1893 ; Contes 

 Espagnoles, 1901; L'Aile, 1911. 

 Among his plays are Nana Sahib, 

 1883 ; Le Filibuster, 1888 ; Par le 

 Glaive, 1892 ; Vers la Joie, 1894 ; 

 LesTruands, 1899; Don Quichotte, 

 1905 ; La Route d' emeraude, 1909. 



Richmond. Mun. bor. and resi- 

 dential suburb of Greater London. 

 It is on the elope of a hill, in the co. 

 of Surrey, 9 m. from Hyde Park 

 Corner, is served by the L. & S.W., 

 N. London, and District Rlys., is 

 connected with the Piccadilly Tube 

 at Hammersmith, and has excel- 

 lent tramway and omnibus ser- 

 vices. In 1921 it was proposed to 

 connect it with the Central London 

 Tube at Shepherd's Bush. The 

 borough, which includes Kew, 

 Petersham, and part of Mortlake, 

 was incorporated in 1890, and is 

 bordered N. by Kew Gardens, W. 

 by the Thames, E. by Mortlake, and 



Richmond, Surrey. View from the Terrace Gardens, looking up the 

 Thames. Top, left, entrance to the Old Palace 



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