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Bourdeaux ; bounded on the eaft by A'genois and Perigord, 
on the fouth by Gafcony, on the wed by the fea, and on 
the north by Saintonge. 
BOURDELOT' (John), a learned,French critic, who 
.diftingufthed himfelf in the republic of letters, by writing 
notes upon Lucian, Pe'ronius, and Heliodorps. Me lived 
at the end of the iC’.li and beginning of the 17th centuries; 
was of a good family of Sens, and educated with care. Me 
applied himfelf to the fludy of the belles lettres and of the 
learned languages. Thefe purfuits did not hinder him from 
being confummate in the law. He exerciled the office of 
advocate to the parliament of Paris in 1627; when Mary 
of Medicis, hearing of his uncommon merit, made him 
mafter of tire requefts. He died at Paris in 1638. Befides 
his notes and emendations upon Lucian, he wrote an Uni- 
veifal Hiftory, Commentaries on Juvenal, a Treatife on 
the Etymology of French Words, and many other works, 
which were never publifhed.—There was alfo abbe Bour- 
delot, his lifters ■•fort, who changed his name from Peter 
Michun to oblige his uncle. He was a celebrated phvti- 
ciau at Paris, who gained great reputation by a treatife 
upon the viper, and feveral other works. He died Feb. 9, 
1685, aged fe verity-fix. 
BOURDON' (Sebaftian), an eminent French painter, 
born at Montpelier in 16 :o. He was feven years in Rome, 
but obliged to leave it before lie had-finithed his ftudies, 
on account of a quarrel. However, he acquired fo much 
reputation by his works, both in landfcape and hiftory, 
that, upon his return to France, he had the honour of 
being the firft who wasynade rector of the royal academy 
of painting and fculpture at Paris. The fine arts being 
interrupted by'the civil wars in France, lie travelled to 
Sweden, where he (laid two years. Me was very well 
efteemed, and nobly prefented, by that great patronefs of 
aits and fcie'nces, Chriftiiia, whofe portrait he painted. 
Fie lucceeded better in his landfcapes than in his hiftory- 
painting. Flis pieces are feldom finiflied ; and tliofe that 
are fo are not always the fineft. He once laid a wager with 
a friend, that he painted twelve heads after the life, and 
as big as the life, in one day. He won it; and thefe heads 
are not the worft things he ever did. He drew a vaft num¬ 
ber of pictures. His moft conliderable pieces are, the gal¬ 
lery of M. de Bretonvilliers, in the ills of Notre-dame ; 
and the feven works of mercy, which he etched himfelf. 
But the moft efteemed of all his performances is, the mar¬ 
tyrdom of St. Peter, drawn for the church of Notre-dame: 
it is kept as one of the choiceft rarities of that cathedral. 
Bourdon was a Calvinift; much valued and refpefted, be- 
caufe his life and manners were good. He died in 1662, 
aged forty-fix. 
BOURDONE'E.yt in heraldry, the fame with Pomee. 
BOUR DONNAY', a town of France, in the department 
of-the Meurte, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift 
of Chateau Salins : two leagues fouth-eaft of M.trial, and 
four north-eaft of Luneville. 
BOURDOUR', a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the pro¬ 
vince of Caramania : ninety-eight miles S.W. of Cogni. 
BOURETOU'TE, a town of France, in the department 
of the Lower Seine : eight miles north-north-weft of Rouen. 
BOURG, or Bgurg-sur-Gironde, a town of France, 
and principal place of a diftrift, in the department of the 
Gironde, lituated on the Gironde. It carries on a confi- 
derable trade in wine : five leagues north of Bourdeaux. 
Lat.45.-4. N. Ion. 17. 1. E. Ferro. 
BOURG (Le), a town of France, in the department of 
the Lower Loire : feven leagues weft of Nantes. 
BOURG (Le), a town of France, in the department of 
the Charente, lituated on the fouth fide of the Charente, 
oppofite Jamac : five miles eaft of Cognac. 
BOURG, a town of the ifland of Cayenne, in South 
America. 
BOURG, a town of France, in the department of the _ 
Piiy-de-Dome : three leagues fouth of Amber. 
BOURG ARGKNTAL', a town of France, in the 
department of the Rhone and Loire, and chief place of a 
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canton, in the diftrift of St. Etienne : four leagues fouth- 
eaft of St. Etienne. 
BOURG en BRESSE, a city of France, and capital 
of the department of the Ain, lituated on the Rellbuze, in 
a country fomewhat marfhy, but fertile : its principal com¬ 
merce is in corn, horfes, cattle, and white leather. The 
number of inhabitants is about 4500. Nine polls north of 
Lyons, and fifty-feveri and three-quarters fourh-eaft of Paris. 
BOURG des COMTES, a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Ille and Vilaine, and chief place of a can¬ 
ton, in the dill rift of Baine : three leagues and a half fouth 
of Rennes. 
BOURG DlEU,*a town of France, in the department 
of the Indre, and chief place of a canton, in the dilirift of 
Chateaurcux : one mile north of Chaleauroux. 
BOURG LASTI'E, or Bourg - l'Arhe, a town of 
France, in the department of the Puy-de-Dome, and chief 
place of a canton, in the diftrift of Clermont Ferrand: eight 
leagues weft-louth-weft of Clermont. 
BOURG de LES'TRA, a town of France, in thefte- 
partment of the Ardeche : fix leagues north-north-weft 
of Privas. 
BOURG NEUF, a fea-port town of France, in the 
Englilh Channel, in the department of the Lower Cha¬ 
rente, and chief place of a canton, in the dilirift of Mache- 
coul, fituated at the mouth of the Loire, in a bay to which 
it gives name, between tire ifle of Noirmoutier and the 
Continent. The harbour and bay are lafe. The chief 
trade of the town is fait, made from falt-marffies nedr the 
place.: fix leagues and a half fouth-weft of Nantes, and 
tv\o weft-north-weft of Machecoul. 
BOURG d’OISANS (Le), a town of France, in the 
department of the Here, and chief place of a canton, in 
the diftrift of Grenoble, on the Romanche : five leagues 
fouth-eaft of Grenoble, 
BOURG la REINE, a town of France, and principal 
place of a diftrift, in the department of Paris: four miles 
fouth of Paris. 
BOURG le ROY, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Sarte, and chief place of a canton, in the dif¬ 
trift of Frenay-le-Vic : two leagues fouth of Alencon. 
BOURG le St. ANDEOL, a town of France, in the 
department of the Ardeche, and chief place of a canton, 
in the dilirift of Coiran : feven leagues fouth-fouth-eaft 
of Privas. 
BOURG de VALENCE, a town of France, in the 
department of the Drome, and chief place of a canton, in 
the diftrift of Valence : one mile north of Valence. 
BOURG de V 1 SAT, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Lot, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift 
of Lauzerte : eight miles weft of Lauzerte. 
BOURG d’AULT, a town of France, on the fea-coaft, 
in the department of the Somme: one league N. of Eure. 
BOURG DUN (Le), a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Lower Seine, and chief place of a canton, in 
the diftrift of Dieppe: three leagues fouth-weft of Dieppe. 
BOURGACHARD', a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Eure, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift 
of Pont Audemer: four leagues eaft of Pont Audemer. 
BOURGANEUF', a town of -France, and principal 
place of a diftrift, in the department of the Creuie : four 
leagues and a half fouth of Gueret, and five and a half 
weft of Aubuffon. 
BOU-RGF.LAT' (Claude), of the academy of Berlin, 
director and infpeftor-general of the veterinary fchools, 
commiftary-general of the haras, died January 3, 1779, 
in an advanced age ; rendered real fervice to his coun¬ 
try by procuring the eftablifhment of veterinary Ichools, 
and by direfting them both by himfelf and by his writings. 
Of thefe are, 1. Le nouveau Nevvcaftle, or a Treatife on 
Hotfemanfhip, 1747. 2. Elemens d’Hippiatrique, oil, 
nouveaux Principes fur la Connoitfance de Chevaux, 1750, 
3 vols. 8vo. 3. Matiere Medicaie Raifcnnee, 1771, 8vo. 
In this work he inferts nothing but what_may be of ufe to 
the veterinary fchools. * 
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