FRA 
mafter of the king’s band, to which oA raaaerat in 1760. 
At length he became dire or an of the is 
termination of this e palais as chevalier Francceur quit- 
profeffional concerns, and lived only for nimfelf and 
his friends. At nearly 80 years of age he had the courage 
to be cut for the ftone, and to fuflain that terrible operation, 
t that ever was under- 
taken, it having been commenced three fuccefflive days. 
ae fortitude, and the cheerfulnefs of his charaGter, fup- 
im under fuch dreadful circumftances, and in a few 
was pe covere oor Dr. Worgan, im our 
own country, funk under fimilar yaa s. M. Francoeur 
of fon 
felf alone; and mm partnerfhip eas with M. Rebel 
eight operas, which abound with melody and excellent re- 
citative, and had no other defe€t than ne being fung too 
flow. igs 
ea 
er the opera band. By his pro bity, and the fim- 
Lapel of his charagter; he a the fonour . being diftin- 
ified by the title of “ honeft Franco Oita coeur 
Chane homme.) He was author of a aes “ae ul tract to 
young mufical compofers, under the title of « Diapafon 
‘de tous les inftrumens a vent,’? fcale and compafs of all 
wind inftruments, 1772. 
IS, in Geography, a town ef Canada, on the 
eat coait of lake St. Pierre. N. lat. 46° 5°. W. long. 
G2 36. " 
Pha ANGOI s, Cape. See GuaRico. —Alfo, the northern- 
‘moft point of Kerguelen’s lend. 
Fraxcois, 0. i a town and ea on the orth coaft 
of the ifland of Hifpaniola. N. lat 19” 40’. W. long. 
40° 
i con Port des. See FRANCAIS. 
Francois River, a river of Upper Canada, which runs 
-5.W. ree lake Nipiffing into lake Huron ; it has feveral 
-portages: that neareft to lake Nipiffing is ‘called Portage 
de Trois Chaudiers, about half a mile in len 
FRANCOISE, a fmall ifland in lie Atlantic, n near the 
-coatt of Africa. N. lat. 20° 15’. 
See Fraxcat 
LI, a river = Spuh, eee runs into the 
fea near Tarragon, in Catalo 
FRANCOLIN, in Ornithology a Rae of Tetrao, 
‘which fee. 
_ FRANCOLINO, in Gengrapy, a town of Italy, in 
‘the i laa of the Lower Po; eight miles N.E. of 
Ferr 
L\NCONIA, a circle of Germany, aa on the 
_N. by Meiffen “and Thuringia, on the E. by Bohemia and 
the Upper Palatinate, on the S. by Bavaria and Swabia, and 
on the | ower Palatinate and the electorate of 
_Mentz. The form of Franconia is fomewhat. circular, its 
diameter being about 1 50. miles; the land towards the centre 
is fertile in corn, wine, ruit, &c. but the frontiers are full 
of forefts and mountains, and little Spies i chief 
river is the Mayne. e = bi 
nC atholics, but the principal. ae reonlifte. “Gf Tie 
The Calvinifts have a churcltes, and the Jews 
eee. 
le 
: erudition, m 
FRA 
fome fynagogues. The ftates compofing this circle are 
partly ples ss ea and partly civil. See 
Franconia, a townhip of 
New Hampfhire, 14 me N.E. of 
{ANY. 
America, in oe on 
Hav 
erhill o nnecti- 
cut river. It was incorporated in 17645 and. "rl called 
a 7 contains 129 inhabitants. 
FRA » atown of Portugal, in the province of 
Beira; 22 ee E. of Vifeu. 
FRAN CUCCI, Inxocenzio, in Biography, an pes 
painter, born at Timo, and therefore known by t 
Innocenzio da Im 
the Bolognefe fchool, 
Francia in 1506 ; : 
at Florence ; and fa the evidence of his works, and the 
teftumony of Vafari, ftudied much after Fra. 
and Andrea del Sarto: for though the main difpofitio 
hk s altar pieces be ftill Gothic, he no longer ufed the sea 
gilding ; he placed the Virgin on high in the centre, and 
urrounded her 
efaro. 
nardo da 
He fometimes placed Gaal re eens oa his altar 
pieces, like that at St. Giacomo of Bologna, wifich breathes 
the very fpirit of Raffaello; that fpirit he feem egms s indeed to 
have aimed at in the greater part of his works;~agd to have 
approached. it nearer ‘than moft of Raffaello’s own {cholars. 
He excelled Francia and his fellow ate! Bagnacavallo in 
ajefty, and corre€tnefs. jects of novel com-. 
bination and ce fancy he has not ete ‘nor feem.the 
to een congenial with that mildnefs and tranquillity of 
oamces which hiftory afcribes to him. Fufeli’s ad 
in 
OP RANEKE R, in Geigraph hy, a town of Pollan d, in 
Friefland ; watered byt wo canals; navigable for barges, and 
having a caftle, built in the 15th century, and a ‘cele 
pepe ak eftablithed by the ftates and William i 
aflau, in the year 1 This is 6ne of the neste 
oe in Friefland, au i ay gel been the refidence of 
the nobleffe of the c The mean temperature of this 
Ger 
Holland, in pee is 
aes eer to N.E. Siberian winds. N. lat. 53 . Ey long. 
TRANGIPANE, an exquifite kind of perfume,. fre- 
quently ae to the leather whereof gloves, purfes, bags, 
&c. are 
Tt ies a name from i — oe of the ancient 
family of ragipanl, wh s the inventer of it. 
There is ll a = id of Me ae Te of the Bae de- 
nomination, o have: been. invented by a grandfon of 
Mutio - aie ; and alfo aperuinee kind of ros 5 folis, 
called by the fame nam 
FRANGULA, in orn fo called from- - frango, to 
break, on account of the brittlenefs of its eae the 
berry-bearing alder, Rhamnus Frangula; E at. 280. , 
e Ruamnus. } he berries are often fo 4 ai with 
—™ 
z 
thofe of buckthorn, -R. catharticus, with which re nearly 
them, 
agree in quality. If it-be any obje@ to diftinguifh 
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