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COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE (1789-1851) [A], an American 

 novelist, son of Judge William Cooper. He was the eleventh of twelve 

 children. 



COPE, EDWARD DRINKER (1840), an American naturalist 

 and comparative anatomist. 



COPERNICUS, NIKOLAUS (1473-1543) [(77+x)-H2], a Polish 

 astronomer, discoverer of the system of planetary revolutions. His 

 father was a councillor in 1465, and his grandfather was established 

 in business at Cracow in 1396. He was an orphan at the age of ten. 



COQUEREL, ATHANASE LAURENT CHARLES (1795- 

 1868), a French Protestant clergyman. 



COQUEREL, CHARLES AUGUSTIN (1797-1851), a French 

 author, brother of the preceding. The brothers were brought up by 

 their aunt. 



CORNEILLE, PIERRE (1606-1684), the father of the classical 

 drama in France. 



CORNEILLE, THOMAS (1625-1709), younger brother of the 

 preceding, also a dramatist, but less eminent. 



CORTES, HERNANDO (1485-1547), the conqueror of Mexico, 

 son of Martin Cortes. 



CORWIN, THOMAS (1794-1865), an American statesman, 

 younger son of Matthias Corwin, for many years a member of the 

 Ohio legislature. 



COUSIN, VICTOR (1792-1867), a French philosopher, son of 

 a clock-maker. 



COWPER, WILLIAM (1731-1800), an English poet. His father 

 was a chaplain to George II. 



CRANMER, THOMAS (1489-1556), the first Protestant arch- 

 bishop of Canterbury. He was the sixth of seven children and an 

 orphan at fourteen. 



CROMWELL, OLIVER (1599-1658), lord protector of the Eng- 

 lish commonwealth, fifth child of Judge Robert Cromwell, who was a 

 younger son of Henry Cromwell, who was nephew of the earl of 



