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BRONTE, Charlotte, published, under the name 'Currer Bell/ 

 Jane Eyre at the age of twenty-two. Her sisters, under the 

 names Ellis and Acton Bell, published remarkable novels. 

 CASAUBON, Isaac, and his son Meric, scholars and philologists. 

 CHAMPOLLION, J.-Frangois, the earliest interpreter of hieroglyphics; 



His son, Jean-Jacques, historian and archaeologist. 

 ETIENNE, a family of literary men and scholars, whose principal 



members were Robert, who printed the Bible ; 

 His brother Charles, scholar and man of science ; 

 His son Henri, author of the Greek Lexicon; 

 Another son, Robert. 

 FENELON, Archbishop of Cambrai. 



His nephew, ambassador in Holland, author of diplomatic 



memoirs. Also two great-nephews were remarkable men. 

 GRAMMQNT, DE, author of the famous Memoir es ; 



tt\s father, Philibert, a courtier of much wit, and an author; 

 His grand-uncle, Richelieu (vide Richelieu). 

 GROTIUS, founder of international law ; 

 His grandfather, a scholar; 

 Hisfat/ier, curator of the University of Leyden; 

 His uncle, Cornelius, professor of philosophy and jurisprudence ; 

 His son, Petrus, diplomatist and scholar. 

 HALLAM. 



His father, Dean of Bristol, and his mother are both spoken of 



by the biographers as remarkable persons ; 

 His son Arthur, who died at twenty-three ; the subject of Tenny- 

 son's In Memoriam ; 

 His other son, Henry, died at twenty-six ; was a young man of 



great promise. 

 HELVETIUS, author and philosopher ; 



His father and grandfather were distinguished physicians, and 



inspectors general of the hospitals of Paris. 

 LAMB, Charles, whose name is always inseparable from that of his 



sister Mary. 

 LESSING, Gottlieb Ephraim, had two brothers, Karl and Johann, 



both distinguished as men of letters. 

 MACAULAY, Thomas Babington. 



His grandfather, minister of Inverary, was an eloquent preacher; 

 "Ptis father, a brilliant writer and zealous abolitionist; 



