FRENCH. 
mm ep but in labour ae the throes of childbirth. 
“The Fre always part & Ja mufique criarde,”? have 
had their ‘take flattered by Gluck, who knew Ronee — 
they could not fing, they could /cream hes fom 
harfh modulations and their ** éclats de voix,” 
«“‘ a force de oe 
and = ae eS 
ne. 
?? augment ted, 
erm a al employed 
“nu 
ee Pox. 
RENCH River, in Geography, a river of Upper Canada, 
of ircegular breadth and form, and crowded with iflands, fo 
that its real banks are feldom fecn. It enters lake Hureon 
from the N. E. in N. * 63. 
Frencu School of ee The a 
to deliver impreffions aper, was introduced into 
t of en aving, fo 
a 
France from the n eighbouriog empire 0 xmany fome 
time about the middle of the fifteenth century. Th 
precife year of its introdtion ha as not bee rded. The 
benefits it has fince red, and is '- conferring on 
cea are on fay bane pe eta great, ye 
ave entered France, V with all the un- 
the appears t 
ae hun: ity of an apoitle of o 
that achat cultivated country, to es cultivation the ar: 
of e ving has co ontributed in no trifling degree, to be 
races ar its introduttion, not to the providence o = 
government, f —_ hath fince done mu 
progrefs, but to the enterprize or eesti 
‘of fome individual artitt, ae name has not defeended to 
us. 
Engraving on mond. or that art which enabled the printer 
to deliver his work from the furface iad the engraving, pre- 
h pper a 
eded t of engraving co ew years: and 
both were at firft loyed in Franc Germ and 
a whether es tran ator or ae 
finned his walle at ie time mention 
fere alled “ Confolation for poor Sinners,’’ 
lately deere into French by the venerable and difcreet 
brother Peter Ferget, doctor of theology, and of the order 
of the Auguitines. In the year of Grace aaa and on the 
arit day of January, he finifhed this 
The moft ancient prints from eee ings on copper were 
aifo thé embellifhments of ty pographical works. ‘The -firit 
French book o ee with copper plates was printed 
at Lyons in 1488, in This book, the author, 
cather tranflator of hic was Nicholas le Huen, a monk 
mount Carme : gees ofeffor of theology, is for the moft 
om ie Itinerary of Bernard de Brey-~ 
earners alee sa in 
ges) 
hook c 
ot 1 
co 
« Of the aaa in and 
places — mount Sinai, and the glorious Catha- 
rine, - This work peor ae whole defcription, as far as, 
tod would pea it to be known, printed at Lyons by men 
eftre,’’ he was fure ent be well heard, 
of ability. Michael Topie of iyecect and James auc 
berg of Germany, living at the faid Lyon. the year of 
our ake oo a on the 28th of Novem 
the [re are the views ee 
fie. are ae in ie Latin and German oat ous of the 
Itinerary of Breydenbach, publithed at Mayence in 1486, 
y pala Rac. with this difference, that the engravings 
are prin rom copper plates in the tranflation, and ‘with 
the aed -prefs, and prefumptively from blocks of wood, 
in the original work. It is not known whether the en- 
graver of thefe plates, Stale are of very rude oe 
was a prea man or a man. Fluber peaks of it a 
poffible t rg, one of the pr ieee 
have been alfo the engraver of the embellifhments. 
As ar early works are publifhed w any engravers” 
e fare’ cities 
m — 
mes, wichftanding that in the latter thofe of the 
printers are mrsreer: 7 it may fafely “ inferred that thofe 
who performed them were little ioaahe cf at the time, 
and that no idea was entcrtained in France of the future 
ceptible or importance of that art of which thefe were 
the earlieft agar icticns. Other anonymous, cngravi ne 
wack ae fince fallen into ncgl.@, were produc ed befor 
the eclofe of the fifteenth century ; but the earlieit I each 
- to which the names or monograms of the artitts 
appear, are thofe of Wendel Reich, a ioreigner, and pre 
fumptively a Gerinan “i reident at Lyons in the 
Duvet, fumetimes called Davet, who 
was a = | in I ae 
ich - ved o ood, and, rege to profeffor 
Chrift, Shih ion _ his works t Lyons, marking ~ 
them with the cypher which will be ee in our plate of 
f the French School of engravers ; 
d,a writer, Duvet was known by the 
name es the Matter of the Uni ele ee his aie 
the rium phs of that animal. Ide rked a 
et 
a 
oD 
) 
s du uring 
the a of Henry the Second, a ‘publithed ce feveral 
ates very Gothic defigns, and which are engraved in 
a wretched ftyle. The principal o them are “ Le Die 
Mars,”’ ae cribed I. D. Ads 
a eternal father ee a ren habit, folio fize, 
“ Morte, avec les Patri- 
a oe ° n fet twenty-four plates, alfo in 
folio, of which t fabjedis a are taken from the Apocalypfe. 
Duvet fometimes placed his initials on a tabl 8 ap 
pears in our plate of the marks and monograms of French en- 
gravers 
Solomon Bernard, frequently termed “ le ine 
ard,’ from the Gnallac {s of his works, el red foo 
after. He was born i in the = 15125 an ngraved chiely 
writers on ar 
Couflin ; however this may have been, his engravings, which 
are both on copper and on wood, are executed (confidering 
the early aie at which they were done) ina clear, neat 
diff a ay i n the deligns conf oe {pirit and 
ity of inv ca 
We have ficugh t proper to give | more ‘copious lifts of 
the works of the engravers of the foreign fchools than of 
thofe of the Englith, becau fe fuch _ are not hitherto print- 
ed in any Englifh book that has o our knowledge. 
The firft edition of Bernard’s bible, which Strutt freaks of 
zs being his molt eiteemed production, was publifhed at Lyons. 
in Ir 550° Su fequent € ditions, containing: impreflions dom 
} ne engravings, have been publifhed, but collectors’ 
ned the firit as far more vaiuable ; 3 and it is now ee 
Coz 
remely 
