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and Norway under the title of Charles XIV. He was the son of a 

 lawyer. 



BERNARD, SAINT (1091-1153), a French ecclesiastic. He was 

 the third of seven children of Tescelin, a Knight of the house of 

 Chatilion, and Aleth, daughter of Count Bernard. 



BERNOULLI, a celebrated family of Swiss mathematicians and 

 savants. The most eminent member of the family was John Bernoulli 

 (1667-1748), who is ranked with Newton and Leibnitz, and who was 

 born 44 years after his brother Nicholas. See also page 182. 



BERRYER, ANTOINE PIERRE (1790-1868) [33], a French 

 advocate and statesman, son of Pierre Nicolas Berryer (1757-1841), 

 an eminent lawyer. 



BERTHOLLET, CLAUDE LOUIS (1748-1822), a French 

 chemist. 



BERZELIUS, JOHAN JAKOB (1779-1848), a Swedish chemist, 

 son of a government schoolmaster. 



BESSEMER, SIR HENRY (1813— ), an English engineer, in- 

 ventor of the Bessemer process of making steel. 



BISMARCK-SCHONHAUSEN, OTTO EDUARD LEOPOLD 

 VON (1815 — ) [44], a German statesman and principal factor in the 

 establishment of the German Empire. He was the youngest surviving 

 son of Karl W. F. von Bismarck (1771 — ), who was the fourth son of 

 Karl Alexander von Bismarck, who was second son of August Fried- 

 rich von Bismarck. 



BLACKSTONE, SIR WILLIAM (1723-1780), an English law- 

 yer whose writings on the common law are still standard in all 

 English-speaking countries. He was the fourth and posthumous son 

 of a silk mercer, who was third son of an eminent apothecary. His 

 mother died before he was 12 years old, leaving him to the care of 

 his uncle, a London surgeon. 



BLAINVILLE, HENRI MARIE DUCROTAY DE (1777-1850), 

 a French naturalist. He was an orphan at an early age. 



BLUCHER, GEBHARD LEBERECHT VON (1742-1819), a 

 Prussian field marshal. 



