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After leaving Italy Eugene lived chiefly at Munich, a1 

 the court of his father-in-law, with the title of Prince ol 

 Leuehtenberg. He visited Paris after the death of his 

 mother, and was very graciously received by Louis XVIII. 

 He also visited Vienna when the Congress was sitting and 

 was treated with marked attention by the Allied Sovereign 

 and their ministers, but especially by the Emperor Alexan- 

 der. Eugene retained, with the consent of the Pope, the pos- 

 session of some estates in the northern provinces of the 

 Roman states, which had formed part of the kingdom of 

 Italy. The restored king of Naples also agreed to pay him 

 five millions of francs. These grants were intended as a 

 compensation for the loss of the yearly income of a million 

 of francs assigned to him by Napoleon on the national do- 

 main of Italy. (Colletta, Storia del Reame di Napoli, vol. 

 iv.) Eugene died at Munich on the 2 1st of February, 1824, 

 at the age of 45 years. The Duchess of Braganza, Don 

 Pedro's widow, and Prince Augustus of Portugal, late hus- 

 band of the Queen Donna Maria, are his children. (Storia 

 d Italia di Carlo Botta; Storia dell' Amministrazione del 

 Ttenn d' Italia sotto il Dominio dei Frances! ; Biographie 

 des Cuntemporains.) 



BEAUJOLAIS, LE, a district in France under the old 

 regime, and one of the subdivisions of the former province 

 of Lyonnais : it is now included in the departments of 

 Rhone and Loire. It was the most northerly of the sub- 

 tlivisions of the Lyonnais, and was hounded on the north 

 by the duchy of Bourgogne or Burgundy ; on the south by 

 the districts of Lyonnais (understanding that name in its 

 in ,-t restricted application) and Forez ; on the east by the 

 river Saone, which separated it from the principality of 

 Dombes, one of the subordinate territories of Bourgogne ; 

 and on the west by the river Loire, which separated it from 

 Forez. Beaujolais is about thirty-five miles from east to 

 west, and about twenty-five from north to south, as mea- 

 sured on the map of Prance in Provinces, published by the 

 Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge ; but a re- 

 ference to the great survey of France by Maraldi and 

 ui, in 183 sheets, shows the boundary on the south to 

 be so very irregular that no measurement would give much 

 clue to the size of the district. The dimensions generally 

 ued by the French geographers are ten leagues (or 

 twenty-eight miles) in length, and eight leagues (or twenty- 

 two miles) in breadth. This country is traversed from south 

 to north by the range of hills which extend from the C- 

 vennes northward to the Cote d'Or, and sepa.ru.te the basins 

 of the Loire and the Rhone. From this range a more level 

 country extends on one side to the Loire and on the other 

 to the Saune, watered by small streams which descend from 

 the mountains and fall into the rivers above-mentioned. 

 Of these streams the chief are the Azergue (which, when 

 its torrent is swollen, is very rapid), and the Ardiere, tribu- 

 taries of the Safme ; the Rhin or Reins, and the Tram- 

 b.nizan, which How into the Loire, and the Trambouze, an 

 alHuent of the Rhin. 



The district is very fertile, and some of the heights are 

 covered with fine wood, yielding deals and timber for the 

 carpenter and the shipwright. The agricultural produce 

 consists of corn, wine, and hemp : there is abundance of 

 pasturage for cattle. Considerable mining operations were 

 once carried on in Beaujolais; but these seem to have been 

 neglected for a long time, at least such as yielded silver. 

 The stone quarries of Pommiers, near Villefranche, which 

 for twelve centuries supplied Lyon with immense blocks of 

 stone of excellent quality, are now almost, if not quite 

 abandoned. 



The chief towns in Beaujolais are Villefranche near the 

 SaTine (population, in 1832, 6460), which was the capital of 

 tlie district while it existed as a subdivision of Lyonnais ; 

 Beaujeu (in the interior, upon the river Ardicre), from 

 which the territory obtained its name (population, in 1832, 

 of commune, 1596; of town, 1520); Belleville, at the junc- 

 tion of the Ardii-re with the Saone ; St. Symphorien de 

 Lay, on the road from Lyon to Roanne (population of com- 

 mune, in 1832, 4500) ; Thizy, near the Trambouze; Perreux, 

 near the Loire ; and Amplepuis, on the Rhin (population 

 of commune, in 1S32, 4873. [See LOIRE, DEPARTMENT 

 ov; LYONNAIS; RHONE, DEPARTMENT OF; and VILLE- 

 FRANCHK.] 



Beaujeu is seated at the foot of a mountain, and, as al- 

 ready noticed, on the bank of the river Ardiere. The lords 

 of Beaujeu had a castle here ; hut when the lordship came 

 by inheritance to the house of Forez, the nobles of that 



race patronized Villefranche, and Beaujeu gradually falling 

 into decay gave place to its younger rival. Expilly, in his 

 Dictionnaire des Guides, fyc., Pans, 1/62, assigns to it 3000 

 inhabitants. Its diminished population in 1832, given 

 above, shows its further decay. It had, up to the tirst 

 French Revolution, a collegiate church, a convent, and an 

 hospital. The church was worthy of note for the sculptures 

 and paintings which it contained. Beaujeu is in 46 10' N. 

 lat., and in 4 34' E. long. 



The first lord of Beaujeu wasWischard or Guichard, who 

 lived in the reign of Robert* son of Hugues Capet (A.D. 

 996-1031), and the lordship continued to be held by his 

 descendants in the male line till 1263, when, in failure of 

 a male heir, it passed by marriage into the family of the 

 Counts of Forez, a younger branch of which family became 

 lords of Beaujeu. Several of these nobles distinguished 

 themselves in the wars of the middle ages. Humbert IV., 

 of the first race, took an active part in the war against the 

 Counts of Toulouse, the protectors of the persecuted Albi- 

 geois; was made constable of France by Louis IX. (St. 

 Louis), whom he accompanied to the Holy Land : and is 

 said to have died in that expedition. Guichard VI., of the 

 second or Forez race, served in the wars of Philip VI. (of 

 Valois), King of France, against the Flemings, and his son, 

 Edward in those of the Baine Philip, and of John II., son 

 and successor of Philip, against Edward III. of England. 

 Edward of Beaujeu, who was in the battle of Crecy, fell in 

 an encounter, in which he defeated the English at Ardres 

 in 1351. Another Edward, one of the successors of this 

 lord, having thrown out of a window an officer \Vho served 

 him with a citation to answer a charge of rape, was arrested 

 and led prisoner to Paris ; and only obtained his liberty by 

 purchasing, at the price of his lordships of Beaujolais and 

 Dombes, the protection of Louis Duke of Bourbon, into 

 whose family the territory of Beaujolais consequently came. 

 The failure of the direct line of the Dukes of Bourbon 

 caused a disputed succession. The claimants were Charles 

 de Bourbon, constable of France, and Louisa of Savoy, 

 mother of Francis I., King of France, whose claims were 

 derived by purchase from a daughter of that Lord Edward 

 who fell in the war with the English. Louisa, unhappily 

 for France, gained the suit ; the constable revolted, and in 

 the service of the Emperor Charles V., and in conjunction 

 with his generals, defeated Francis at Pavia and took him 

 prisoner. The house of Bourbon Montpensier gained pos- 

 session of the lordship of Beaujolais in the reign of Charles 

 IX. of France, and from this house it passed to the family 

 of Orleans, which appears to have held it up to the period 

 of the French Revolution. 



BEAULIEU, the name of many places in France. In 

 the Dictionnaire Universel de la France (Paris, 1 804), thirty* 

 nine towns and villages so called are given. Two of the 

 villages are, however, beyond the boundaries to which 

 France was reduced at the downfall of Napoleon; but as 

 three small villages, also called Beaulieu, appear in the 

 Diclionnaire da Gaulfs of Expilly, which are not inserted 

 in our first-quoted authority, we may consider the name as 

 applying to forty places, large and small. It was also given 

 to several religious houses, whether in towns or in more 

 secluded situations. 



Beaulieu, in- the department of Correze, is a small town, 

 which owes its origin to an antient Benedictine monastery 

 of the congregation of St. Maur, founded by Rodolph, or 

 Raoul de Turenne, Archbishop of Bourges, about the 

 middle of the ninth century, and enriched by Frolaire, sue 

 ccssor of Raoul, and others. It is on the right bank of the 

 Dordogne, in the southern part of the department, in 44 

 59' N. lat., and 148' E. long: population, in 1832, 2154 

 for the town, and 2415 for the whole commune. Some 

 have ascribed the foundation of the monastery to Charle- 

 magne, but erroneously. (Martiniere; Expilly, Diction- 

 naire Universel de la France, fyc.) 



Beaulieu, in the department of Indre et Loire, may be 

 considered almost as a suburb of the town of Loches (see 

 LOCHES), from which it is separated by the two channels of 

 the river Indre, which divides a little above this part, and re- 

 uniting its waters just below, encloses a small island which 

 lies between the two towns. Beaulieu, previous to the 

 Revolution, consisted of three parishes, which seems to 

 indicate that it was once of greater importance. There 

 were also two religious foundations a Benedictine abbey 

 of the congregation of St. Maur, and a house of regular 

 canonesses of the order of St. Augustiu. The former of 



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