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in 1757: Crebillon, in 1762; Pompignan, in 1784; Berlin, in 

 1790 ; and Chenier, in 1794. Ponce-Denis Le Brun, died in 1807 ; 

 Jacques Delille, in 1813 ; and Count Coetlogon, in 1826. Froissart, 

 Boileau, and Voltaire, have been mentioned among the historians ; 

 and among other poets, Chateaubriand and Lamartine are, we 

 believe, still living. Of French novelists, besides Rousseau, Voltaire, 

 and Chateaubriand, we can only name Rabelais, who died in 1553 ; 

 Montaigne, the essayist, who died in 1592 ; Mile, de Scuderi, who 

 died in 1701 ; Le Sage, in 1747 ; Marmontel, in 1798 ; Madame de 

 Cottin, in 1807; St. Pierre, in 1814; Madame de Stael, in 1817; 

 and Madame de Genlis, in 1830. 



In the physical sciences, France presents many distinguished names. 

 Of mathematicians, Descartes, also a metaphysician, died at Stock- 

 holm, in 1650; James Bernouilli died in 1705; and his brother, 

 John, in 1748: Delahire, in 1718; Clairault, in 1765; D'Alem- 

 bert, in 1783 ; Condor cet, also a politician, died in 1794 ; Lagrange, 

 in 1813 ; and Monge, in 1818. Gassendi, the astronomer, died in 

 1655; Lacaille, in 1762; and Laplace, the mathematician and 

 astronomer, died in 1827. Fermat, the mechanician, died in 1664; 

 Pascal, in 1662 ; Coulomb, in 1806 ; and Poisson, in 1840. Arago, 

 Biot, and Ampere, are, we trust, still living. Of French chemists, 

 Lavoisier died in 1794 ; Fourcroy, in 1809 ; Guyton de Morveau, 

 in 1816 ; and Berthollet, of Swiss birth, died in 1822. Gay Lussac, 

 and Vauquelin are, we believe, still living. Of French naturalists, 

 Tournefort died in 1708 ; Anthony de Jussieu, in 1758 ; and his 

 brother, Bernard, in 1777 : Buffon died in 1788 ; Saussure, in 

 1799 ; the abbe Haiiy, in 1822 ; and Cuvier, in 1832. Decandolle, 

 Lamarck, and Brongniart, are, we believe, .still living. Of French 

 physicians and surgeons, Pare died in 1590; Pecquet, in 1674; 

 Geoffroy, in 1731 ; Sauvages, in 1767 ; J. L. Petit, in 1750 ; An- 

 thony Petit, in 1794 ; Desault, in 1795 ; and Bichat, in 1802. 



Of French painters, Eustache Le Sueur, historical painter, died in 

 1655; Nicholas Poussin, his rival, died in 1665 ; Gaspar Poussin, 

 landscape painter, died in 1675 ; and Claude Lorraine, of the Vene- 

 tian school, died in 1682. Claude Joseph Vernet, the marine painter, 

 died in 1789 ; and some of his descendants are also distinguished 

 painters. Girodet-Trioson, died in 1824; and David, the recent 

 historical painter, died in exile, at Brussels, in 1825. Of French 

 sculptors, Puget died in 1694 ; and Falconet, in 1791. Of French 

 musical composers, we can only name Boieldieu, who died in 1834 ; 

 and Le Sueur, and Auber, who, we believe, are still living. 



4. We commence the section on British Biography, by giving 

 a list of the sovereigns, with the dates of their accession, from the 

 time of the Saxon Heptarchy. Of the Anglo-Saxon line were Egbert, 

 828; Ethelwolf, 838; Ethelbald, 857; Ethelbert, 860; Ethelred, 

 866; Alfred, the Great, 872 ; Edward, the Elder, 900 ; Athelstan, 

 925; ^ Edmund L, 941 : Edred, 948: Edvvy, 955; Edgar, the 

 Peaceable, 959; Edward II., the Martyr, 975; Ethelred II., the 

 Unready, 978; Edmund II., Ironside, 1016; to whom succeeded 

 the Danish conquerors, Canute, the Great, 1017 ; Harold Harefoot, 

 1036; and Canute II., (Hardicanute), 1039; after which the Saxon 



