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tising columns of our newspapers and periodicals. The origin 1859. 

 of the term seems worthy of a note; especially as many, I 

 doubt not, have like myself supposed it to be without more 

 signification than the names of other perfumers' nostrums : as, 

 for instance, Guards' Bouquet, Jockey Club, and the like. 



Frangipani is the name of a very ancient and illustrious The Frangi- 

 family of Rome, one member of which, Mutio Frangipani, P anlfamii y- 

 served in France in the Papal army during the reign of Charles 

 IX. The grandson of this nobleman was the Marquis Frangipani, 

 Marechal des Arme'es of Louis XIII. ; and he it was who 

 invented a method of perfuming gloves, which, when so perfumed, 

 bore the name of " Frangipani gloves." 1 Manage, in his Origini 

 della Lingua Italiana, published at Geneva in 1685, thus notices 

 the Marquis and his invention : 



"Da uno di que' Signori Frangipani, (1'abbiam veduto qui 

 in Parigi) furono chiamati certi guanti porfumati, Guanti di 

 Frangipani." 



From the following passage in Le Laboureur's Memoir es de 

 Castelnau, 2 it appears that the brother of the Marquis Frangipani 

 had a share in the invention : 



" Ce dernier Marquis Frangipani, et son frere mort auparavant 

 luy, inventerent la composition du parfum et des odeurs qui 

 retiennent encore le nom de Frangipane." 



What the composition of the perfume was that gained for the The Perfume. 

 Marquis so much reputation, I have not been able to discover. 

 Menage, who, it will be observed, was a contemporary, and had 

 met the Marquis in Paris, alludes merely to perfumed gloves, 

 and I am inclined to think that this was the only form in which 

 the invention at first appeared. Le Laboureur speaks of his 

 inventing "la composition du parfum et des odeurs," which 

 perhaps may be understood to refer to some essence, powder, 

 or pommade. This much, however, is certain, that various 



1 Vide Bayle, Dictionnaire Historique et critique; Moreri, Grand Dic- 

 tionnaire, ed. 1740, tome iv. p. 183. 

 8 Ed. Bruxelles, 1731, tome ii. p. 651. 



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