FRENCH. 
is an exception fronr this fo 
ufed ; 
in his court; the Latin and ane ar 
ould not bear to hear 
cultivated in- 
French is there vi he little 
po 
re there 
England in the French language ; and 
‘of moft of the provinces Of the Netherlands are written in 
‘the fame. 
Laftly, the French is the fame language every where ; not 
enly i in all the eas of France, but in all places where 
it is fpoken, out of nce. 
For a critical Gee ae with what regards the 'rench 
tongue, fee the Remarques of M. Vaugelas ; ; and the 
oo M. Corneille has made on thofe remarks ; 
e Remargues of T°. Bouhours; and the doubts of a 
ie on gentleman, by the fame father; the Bric 
ad Arifte and Eugene; the obfervations of M. 
is et ton with thofe of M. Huet 
French gramm 3 and that of the abbé Ree ; 
the two itcourfes of the abbé de Dangeau; one on the 
vowels, and the other on the conloniacs. and many later 
works. 
Frexcu, in Geography, a confiderabl e river of America, 
in the Maflachufetts, which iffues from a {mall pond on ae 
borders of Leicetter and Spencer, in Worcelter county, 
am which runs hile Oxford, and joins Quincbauge 
river, in Vhompfon townthip, in ne Te Its 
name from the Trench proteitants who obtained a ee 
ment in the town of Oxford, after the revocation of the 
edict of Nantes in 1685. 
Frexcu Bay, a bay in the eae of } Magellan, on the 
coat id Patag onia. 5S. lat. 5 WwW. long. 72 
Fre nu Barley, in Agric a name given toa ioe of 
ee which has He naked like wheat, but the ear 
fhaped in a fimilar manner oo that of common — 
a kind of barley which is faid to afford a large ee nd 
to make good malt and bread. Itis fometines ce 
oe arley. 
RENCH Bean fort of bean moftly grown in the 
ga rine ; but Bee may be cultivated in the field where the 
foilis light and mellow, with great advantage. See Kipney- 
BEAN and PHAsEFOLus. 
arate ceed: in Geogra raphy, 
rica, in the Teneffee, which rifes on the f the 
great oo and Bald mountains in North Carolina. It is 
formed by two principal branches, which receive feveral 
: nite about 58 miles from the 
fource of the Dione the eaftern branch; thence it 
The ee of Te Ranchi much impeded b rocks, 
and fo likewife is the Teneffee branch, which joins the main 
river 50 miles below this, A large, clear, medicinal {fpring, 
faid to be efficacious in the cure of man ‘YY ifeafes, has been 
lately ne oy the waters of a river, about 30 miles 
ina di SS its mouth. e water is fo hot that a 
perfon, upon firit going into it, can fearcely endure it. 
Nearer ihe mouth of the river, a valuable lead mine has been 
difcovered, 
Frencu Charader, Coins, Companies. See the fubftan- 
ives. 
Frencn Creek, in Geography, a north-weftern water of 
cau river, ee which it falls Ape the N. fide of Fort 
Frankling 80 mi . by E. of Pittfourgh. This affords 
the neareft pallige to lake Erie. 
9) 
a navigable river of ne 
S. E. fide o 
Iti is navigable with fmall : 
boats to Le Beeuf, avery crooked channel 5 
pera to Prefque 
miles. This is the ua route from Quebec to Ohio.—Alfo, 
a river of Kentucky, which runs into the Ohio. N. lat. 37° 
47'. W. lon 
nee 
FRENCH Grafs} in Clee. a name given by our farmers 
to a plant raifed for the food of cattle, and more properly 
called faint-foin. It had its name French grafs, from its 
coming originally to us from France, and from its ufe in ferv- 
ing, both frefh and dried, for the food of cattle ; the com 
clover is called grafs = 
nor the other are properly graffe 1 
call it everlafting i. from its long continuance, a flrong 
crop often yielding a pientiful annual produce for forty years 
without ae renewin 
RENCH Key, in Geography, a {mall _ in the Spanifh 
oe near the Mofquito fhore. N. lat. 11° 12°. W. long. 
O'. 
oe xen Keys, two “_ iflands among the Be hanias, De 
of verre N. lat. . W. lon 
Frencu Meafures ‘Money. "See the fan ca 
Frexcu Mufic, mufic in the national ftyle of France. 
The whole French nation feems at prefent pretty generally 
have relinquifhed their old Ryle of mufic, for cenfuring 
which, fifty years ago, Rouffeau was burnt in e igy at the 
door of the opera hor i ull is given up ; 
baffe fondamentale, and the operas of Rameau, mre were 
much honour to the nation, are fading faft, 
hae they have nil a few adherents. But the mufical critics 
Trance, particularly the Gluckifts, fo decifively fet up: 
day mufic againft every other, that they feem to expe all 
E ) ow down to t an ut to afk pardon 
he + 
than that produced on the model of the operas of Gluck ! 
Thefe gentlemen neither fee nor hear any thing but defects 
acme i Italy. The abbé Rouffier is 
n for an me aad oad 2 
aborde, for that and ne mpofitions of Rameau ; while 
the abbé ene falls foul on ite as been faid o 
in the theory of mufic, except by himfelf; of the a Ae 
or the merits of compofition or performance, neither he nor 
It is e 
v 
and deficiencies of French finging. 
tious of jetta ag in their native language. 
the Germ e Englith, the Poles, and the Ruffians have 
their areal dee ae ine the courts in Europe have 
ad ferious operas in the n language, compofe sd and: 
performed by Ita (ans ee th e French. The French, the - 
Englifh the Germans, are very wife in abolifhing 
recitative from their mufical dramas. 
Italy, has a genuine recitative ; but muit 
ave one diftina rom. declaration and fong, 
Gneing | in their theatres to hu umour Td ae See 
Opera and ReciTaTIv 
French fe at the eeue opera of “* Iphigenie en 
Tauride,’”’ has been very aptly compared, not toa female 
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