FRA 
q AVE At 
are declarea bankr: tall U their 
‘affairs are fettled onif taken, are put a arreft, The magif- 
trates of Fra nee are divided: into three beuches; the firit is 
compofed of 14echevins, the fecond of 14counfellors, and the 
third chiefly of tradefmen or artificers. 
ance are decided by the two former, out of w vhem twe sarge 6 
isting to the police. “Francfort was affelled 500 florins for the 
Roman ra ao is —— to the imperial chamber agi rix- 
aaaed 26° he 
the expence of funeral pomp an 
. has bee 
Francfort 
burying of de ad bod 
All forts of ana are alfo. prohibited by law, and the 
wanderings of gypties are alfo forbidden. 
‘ afcertaine me have afcribed it to sa cea e, duke 
Piconis, father to — nond : is 
“ deceffors, named Fran w 
ane hey fay : was pndenily called “ Trajectum Franco- 
It If 
enominated ‘ Felenopolis,”” from per 
: Helen, mother OF Conttantine the Great. 
aie to pay fix millions ot live and ons 
vifions. On the defe aor ee t Wurg ae ae 
Eiea were obliged to evacuate it in Oe fam me year. 
A council was held here in 794, againft the herefy of 
‘Felix, bifhop of ae who taught that Chrift was the fon 
@ 
Befides the aoe it hasa 
noble — a focie se for promoting the arts and fciences, 
two colleges, fauxbou Tg8, and feveral ‘charche Se 
year 1806 pila: town fell h into the hands of the French: 
2 miles .5.We . roe and 48 E. of Berlin. N. lat. 
me 22'8". E. lon 
45°. 
FRANCH E-COMTE, sociently called Upper oS 
bh 
The ala of this ancient city has not been ag aes 
e 
Otranto, in-Apulia; whence, after a fhort 
In hi 
FRA 
hencev xtra 
nus Gaforius, or Gaforio, 
of Lyons, 
a 
the following particulars. 
ef Lodi, Hine cree makes him a native 
in France, 
a 
ny ofthe but after ftudying mufic for two 
years under Friar John Goodenach, a carmelite, he manifefted 
fo much genius for that {cience, that it was thought expedient 
to.make it his profeffion. After learning the rudiments of 
mufic at Lodi he went to Mantua, where he was cdo 
by the marquis Lodovico Gonzago ; and whe ere haste See 
ears he paar his ftudies t anc 
ed aes reputation both in the (ce 
- eae part of rom this city he went 
he ic le _ on mufic for two 
orks; after which he 
o Genoa, whither he was te by the doge Prof- 
: there he entered into prieft’s orders. From a he 
peer to Milan by the duke and duchefs Galas. ‘bie 
ey being foon after expelled that city, he returned-to Na- 
se, aa Philip of oe profeffor royal, received him 
as his colleague ; and 
Tin@tor. 
many ‘celebrated and 
learned muficians, with whom he: now converfed and difputed. 
He there ea oa Siena his profound “ Treatife on 
the Theory of Har 1480; which was afterwards cor- 
rected, wei N, ae Psa at Milan, 1492; but the 
plague raging in 
much incommode 
he re- 
turned to Lodi, where he was sproteéted and favo et by Pal- 
lavicino the bifhop, and opened a public {chool, in which, 
during seal years, he forméd many excellent fcholars.” He 
great a at Bergamo if he would 
fart cere but the war being over, and the duke of Milan, 
s old patron, nee 
city to any other. 
moft of his works; that he was careffed by the Sirtk 
of his time for rank and learning ; and that he read aes 
by public soared! to crowded audiences, for which he had 
gundy, was, before the revolution, a province of Fra a faculty granted him by the archbifhop and chief magiftrates 
bounded on the north by Lorraine, ‘on the E. by Swi tzerland . — city in 1483, which anche him far above all his .co- 
and Savoy, on the S. and W. by Bur wrgundy and Champa orary brethren : and how much he “ ed the {cience 
lying | between 46° 15! and 47° 55/N. lat., and been 5°20 by s inftructions, his ee, and his writings, was tefti- 
and 6° 55! ong., being 39 leagues from - to S. and fied by the approbation « of the whole city 3 to which _may be 
20 to 26 in breadth, and containing upwards of 700,000 inha- 
ve 
ravel, and inne tone, and yields gr e 
fruits, azd excellent patture s. It has mines of iron, copper, 
.. The mot confiderable Fs are the ‘Saone, the 
Doubs, and the Oiguon. When 
ange 
Amont; and Aval, which now compel threg departments, 
- wiz. Saone, Doubs, and Jur 
ber of volumes he wrote, - among: which feveral will live as 
long as mufic and aa dee tongue are underitood. He 
ndtranflated i into 
comment 
Latin the ancient iy aia writers on ana “Bacchi tus fenior, 
Ariftides, saa a Ptolemy’s s Harmoni cs, and Manue 
Briennius. The: -of the works which he publifhed is 
as follows: §& ieee aa Opus Harmonice -Difcipline,’’ 
mentioned above, Neapolis, 1480, Milan, 1492.. This 
was the firft book on the fubje&t of mufic that iffued from the 
prefs after the invention of printing, if we except the * De. 
fi Tin@tor 
njtiones Term. Mufice,’? of _ hn “6 Prattica 
Gg Muficz 
