FOU 
, of the ancient town of ti the V: dueaffians, vs Aas of 
ademy of 
; Tiferiptions.” lifeo reda se rtibus 
Perfecutorum,”’ oleae is ell serve to ieaeaaiee 
orcri, 
OU- CHAN, i in Geography, a town of China, of the 
_ third see in the province of Chang-tong ; 25'miles S.E. 
of Tang-tcheou. 
FOUCHENDGE, or FousHENGs, a town of Perfia, 
in the province of Chorafan, taken and sess in 1380 
by Timur Bey, though ftrongly fortified, 25 miles N. of 
Herat. N, lat. 34° 50! E. loug. 76° 29'. 
FO R, sage in Biogra, He ged a writer of fom 
celebrity, was bor t Dijon in the r 1644, where he 
was educated, eens ordained ahck and prefented to 
.an honorary uronee. That he might purfue philofophical i 
itudies, to which he was extremely attached, with more 
freedom and advantage, he removed to Paris, where he ac- 
quired the efteem and hendthip of many eminent men 
the time ; but he formed his intimate connection with 
thofe who diftinguifhed he nfelece: as advocates for the re- 
vivalof the academic philofophy. In the propagation of 
their e was ely zealous, and devoted his ie 
with confiderable learning in defence of them. He ism 
tioned by Baillet in terms of Ingh refpect, who even deno- 
and 
thought icherand Huet-y “were etter -scquainted with the 
oa feAs of philofophers than their contempo- 
aries, . Fou As died at Paris in hie Bliy-thied helio 
it was fuppofed his intenfe applica ation to itu a great 
He was author of a variety 
‘© Critici{ms,’’ 
5 
ing the Morality of Confucius 2 bal ee A T ae 
co meters, or Toftruments for baa the 
al and humidity of the Air.’? Mor 
FOU > JOHANN sha a native 2 of eee a pro- 
of Auftria 
s 
fic by his ‘* Gradus ad Parnaffum five manuduGiio a 
pofitionem mufice regularem, methodo novo, ac certa non- 
dum ante tam exa¢to ordine in lucem edita,”? written in 
Latin, and ee: in 1725. Itis dedicatedto the em- 
peror Charles VI., who defr heel the whole expence of the 
The work is printed in folio, and divided 
ks + the firft is en Seely theor ctical, _ rather 
a treatife on harmonics than praétical c 
our par 
Peieaa 4 or 
" pieces 
: ereated ee acne of the parliament of Paris 
FOU 
2, 3, and 4 parts. “Then of peed eounterpoints ang 
aaty, of variations, modes of the church, various 
a of fugue, of taite, of the ecelefiatical ftyle, a cape 
are a, of the mixed ityle, and of recit Th rine 
is ver cy CO 
of Neapolitan {chool. 
1742 this excellent won was tranflated into German 
Mir, and publifhed at tae ee with notes. The 
ie prefs of this edition is well ut oe se 
e owded 
1766 it hee ee a Lelia and 
publifhed in folio i Manfre i 
ments the author, Fouchs, - faying 
vith an Italian underftanding.’? 
y d not then furpatfed allthe Itahan seada aa of 
inftrumental 
premature genius of Mozart e n 
ofc aca an, both vocal. and inftrumental, Some 
detached parts of the “ Gradus ad Par naffum’” were pub- 
lithed in England es Welcher about the year 1770, tranf- 
lated by Hoeck ; red, 
in our oe 
ive agreat age. au 
written . himfelf ) tha in th ty 17235 
mous lutenift, and Gra the opera 
to Prague, where on 
were affembled by order of the emperor Charles VI. to 
eee the feftival of his being crowned kin ng of Bohe- 
ory does not furnifh a more glorious event for 
mene than this folemnity, nor a fimilar inftance of fo 
great a number of eminent profeffors, of any one art, being 
poled together 
Upon this cealioe, there was an opera performed in the 
openair, by a hundred voices, and by two hundred inftruments. 
There was not an indifferent finger among the principal 
performers, all were of the firft clafs. 
— 
vo 
~ 
rm 
oa 
and Braun, a 
fitters, Ambervi was afte ried, 
to Peroni, a famous player on ae abincie. _ ie pee 
to ta the finger. 
e opera was called * La Conftanza e Fortezza,’”” and 
compofed by the famous old Fux, imperial chapel-mafer 
The mufic, which was in the old church ftyle, 
a rfe and dry; but, at the fame time, grand, and 
had a better effe, perhaps, wi i 
in fuch an immenfe {pace, tan 
by more celicate compofiti itio 
HUN, in Ev he yy, a town of China, of the 
third rank, iu the province of Se-tchuen ; 30 miles N.W. oe 
TVche-li-leou. 
fo 
could have been paced 
FOUCQUET, Nicuoras, marquis of Belleifle, in 
Biography, fon of Francis Foucquet, vifcount de Vaux, and 
a countellor of ftate, was born 1 155 a | brought for- 
ards anne: in the departments o 
Fee age of thirty-five. By cardinal Mazarin he was made 
fuperintendant of oo finances, and participated largely in’ 
the public plunder, w hich was carried to an enormous height 
during the cardinal’s adminiftration. oucquet is faid to 
have ipent more ager ae upon his feat 
of Vaux, where he sa aera entertain~ 
ments. He was'a liberal ee of men of letters, and acs 
2 qui 
red 
