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OBITUAKIES, FOREIGN". 



in the House of Commons in one Parliament 

 only, from 1852 to 1857, as one of the mem- 

 bers for the county of Clare in the Liberal in- 

 terest. 



FOLTZ, PHILIPP VON, a German painter, born 

 May 11, 1805; died August 5, 1877. Among 

 his earlier paintings, the " Greek Nurses on the 

 Battle-field" is well known. Having spent a 

 few years in Rome, he decorated the bath-room 

 of King Maximilian II. of Bavaria, and, with 

 scenes from the tales of the Rhine, the Schon- 

 born Palace. Among his latest works are 

 " Frederick Barbarossa and Henry the Lion," 

 " The Age of Pericles," and a " Woman with a 

 Child." 



FOED, Rev. JAMES, a British clergyman and 

 author, died at an advanced age on February 

 18, 1877. He graduated at Oriel College in 

 1818. During his earlier years, he published 

 many sermons and tracts ; but his chief work 

 on religious subjects was " The Gospels Illus- 

 trated from Ancient and Modern Authors" (4 

 vols., 1848-'59). He also published similar 

 volumes on the Acts of the Apostles and St. 

 Paul's Epistle to the Romans, and translations 

 of "The Quaresimale" (1865) of P. Paolo Seg- 

 neri, of Dante's " Inferno " (1865), and of the 

 "Divina Commedia" (1870). 



FOEDYOE, Sir JOHN, a British general, died 

 at an advanced age in March, 1877. He ob- 

 tained his commission as second-lieutenant in 

 1822, and served his entire life in India, taking 

 part in almost all the important campaigns in 

 that country. He received numerous decora- 

 tions, and was nominated Knight-Commander 

 of the Bath in 1873. He obtained the rank of 

 major-general in 1861, and lieutenant-general 

 in 1872. 



FOUBNIEB, FELIX, a French bishop, born May 

 8, 1803 ; died June 9, 1877. In 1870 he was 

 ordained Bishop of Nantes, and at the time of 

 his death was in Rome with a company of pil- 

 grims from Brittany. 



FRANCLIETT, PASQUIEB, Marquis de, a French 

 Senator, born in 1810; died October 14, 1877. 

 Born in the Pyrenees, he was trained up by 

 Legitimist parents in the belief that the French 

 Revolution was a great calamity, and through 

 life was a devout believer in the divine right of 

 the elder Bourbons to govern France. Elected 

 from the Hautes-Pyren6es to the National As- 

 sembly in 1871, he soon became a marked man 

 from the intensity of his devotion to the Legit- 

 imist cause, and his scathing denunciations of 

 the Bonapartists and Orleanists, whom he de- 

 tested even more than the partisans of the Re- 

 public. His vigorous sallies were always ap- 

 plauded by the Republicans, and on several oc- 

 casions he said, " If the choice is only between 

 the Republic and Empire, better a thousand 

 times the Republic." On the adoption of the 

 constitution in 1875, he was elected to the Sen- 

 ate, and in 1877 voted for the dissolution of the 

 Chamber of Deputies. During the electoral 

 struggle that ensued, however, he expressed his 

 dissatisfaction with the conduct of the Bona- 



partists in the strongest language, and was con- 

 sidered by many as likely to abandon the coali- 

 tion of Bonapartists, Orleanists, and Legiti- 

 mists, which supported the De-Broglie-Fourtou 

 ministry. 



FROST, WILLIAM EDWAED, a British painter, 

 born in 1810 ; died June 7, 1877. He first de- 

 voted himself to portrait painting, producing 

 upward of 300 portraits within 14 years. In 

 1839 he won the gold medal of the Academy 

 with his " Prometheus Bound." Several of his 

 paintings are in possession of the Queen. For 

 Prince Albert he painted " The Disarming of 

 Cupid." Among his many works one of the 

 most prominent is " By the Waters of Babylon," 

 painted in 1869. 



FUNK, HEINBICH, a German landscape paint- 

 er, born December 12, 1807; died November 

 22, 1877. He received his art education in the 

 Academy of Dusseldorf, and in 1854 went to 

 Stuttgart as professor of landscape painting in 

 the art school in that city. His best works are 

 scenes from the valley of the Inn in the Tyrol. 



GERLAOH, EBNST LTJDWIO VON, a German 

 politician, born March 7, 1795 ; died February 

 17, 1877, in consequence of injuries received by 

 being run over by a coach. He was for many 

 years the leader of the Conservatives in the 

 Prussian Chambers, having been a member of 

 either the Upper or Lower House from 1849 to 

 1858. In 1873 he was again elected a member 

 of the Prussian Diet, and in January, 1877, of 

 the German Reichstag. He was President of 

 the Court of Appeals in Magdeburg from 1844 

 to 1874, when he resigned this position in con- 

 sequence of being convicted of a press offense. 



GLAIS-BIZOIX, ALEXAXDBE, a French politi- 

 cian, born March 9, 1800; died November 7, 

 1877. He was a member of the Chamber un- 

 der Louis Philippe, and of the Constituent As- 

 sembly in 1848. In 1863 he was elected to the 

 Corps L6gislatif, but was defeated in 1869. In 

 1370 he was a member of the Government of 

 National Defense. He was accused of embez- 

 zlement, was arrested by the Commune in May, 

 1871, and, after its overthrow, was arrested by 

 the Versailles Government, but was immediate- 

 ly released. At the elections of February 8, 

 1871, for the National Assembly, he was a can- 

 didate in the C6tes-du-Nord, but withdrew 

 shortly before the election. He was an unsuc- 

 cessful candidate at a supplementary election, 

 held in the same year in Paris, and after that 

 retired to private life. He was a man of great 

 wit and eccentricity, and was a favorite with 

 the Chamber of Deputies. He wrote several 

 theatrical pieces, but all of them were so ultra- 

 republican in their tendencies that the censors 

 of the Empire never allowed them to be brought 

 out in France. He always produced them in 

 Geneva, and went from Paris with troops of 

 friends to see them. His experience as a mem- 

 ber of the Government of National Defense he 

 described in " La Dictature de Cinq Mois." 

 GOLDSCHMIDT, PAUL, a German Orientalist, 

 born in December, 1850; died May 7, -1877. 



