i>f>4 F O L 
Yonne: feven leagues and a half weft-fouth-weft of 
Troyes, and three eaft of Sens. 
To FOIST, v. a. [fauffrr, Fr.] To infert by forgery. 
—Left negligence or partiality might admit or foiji in 
abufes and corruption, an archdeacon was appointed to 
take account of their doings. Carew. 
Forge law, and fold into Lome by place 
Of fome old rotten roll. Dry den. 
FOIST'NESS, f Fuftinefs; mouldinefs: 
Drefs muftard, and lay it in cellar up fweet. 
Left foijlinefs make it for table unmeet. Tujfer. 
FOIS'TY, adj. See Fusty. Mouldy; fufty. 
FOIX, before the revolution, a country of France, on 
the banks of the Arriege, and divided into Upper and 
Lower. The foil of the latter is fertile in corn, fruit, and 
tvine ; the former is more hilly and lefs fertile, but abounds 
in game, and the vallies produce excellent pafturage. 
Mines of iron abound ; thole of filver, copper, and lead, 
are negledbed ; there are likewife quarries of marble, jaf- 
per, &c. and many medicinal fprings. It was once an in¬ 
dependent county, united to the crown of France by Henry 
IV. The principal towns were Foix, Tarafcon, Ax, Pa¬ 
nders, Saverdun, Lezat, Mas d’Azil, and Montaut, all 
of which are in the department of the Arriege. 
FOIX, a town of France, in the department of the Ar¬ 
riege, and chief place of a canton, in the diftridb of Ta¬ 
rafcon; fuppofed to have been founded by the Phocians, 
whence the name corrupted into Foix. It contains about 
3500 inhabitants, and is defended by a caftle, on a rock : 
three leagues north of Tarafcon. Lat.42.58.N. Ion. 
19. 16. E. Ferro. 
FOIX (Mark-Authony de), a French Jefuit, born at 
thechateau de Fabas, in the diocefe of Couferans, in 1627. 
By the excellence of his natural abilities and his ftudious 
application, he acquired confiderable reputation as a di¬ 
vine, as a preacher, and as a man of letters. For lb me 
years he was appointed to teach theology at the college of 
Tournon, in the Vivarais. His attention to his duties as 
profelTor, however, did not prevent him from engaging in 
the fervice of the pulpit, for which he was admirably fit¬ 
ted. Belides the learning necellary for a divine, he pof- 
felled genius, eloquence, an intimate knowledge of the 
human heart, and the recommendations of a good perfonal 
figure, and of a noble prefence. With thefe qualifica¬ 
tions he for a long time attradbed much notice as a popu¬ 
lar preacher. He died at the college of Billon in Au¬ 
vergne, while difcharging the office of provincial, in 16S7, 
in the wxtieth year of his age. He was the author of 
The Art of Preaching the Word of God, containing 
the Rules of Chriftian Eloquence, nrao. 1687; and of 
The Art of educating a Prince, which was ptiblilhed 
in i2mo. after the author’s death. 
FOKL'MARK. See Vog lamarck. 
FOKL'PRUCK. See Voglaeruck. 
FOIFARD (Charles, chevalier de), a celebrated mili¬ 
tary writer, born of a noble family at Avignon, in 1699. 
An early paflion for arms caufed him at the age of fixteen 
to engage in the fervice ; and though his father withdrew 
him and (hut him up in a convent, he found means to 
make his efcape, and entered as a cadet in the regiment of 
Berry. He ftrved during the whole of the war of 1688, 
as a volunteer, which fituation be rendered a very ufeful 
fchool to himfelf. He acquired an exadt knowledge of 
the country, drew maps and plans, and laid down the tac¬ 
tical operations of the war with Angular ingenuity. He 
thus advanced in reputation, and was made by the duke 
of Vendome his aid-de-camp, in 1702. Soon after, he ac¬ 
companied the grand-prior into Lombardy, and by his ad¬ 
vice was the caufe of various fucceffes. He diftinguiftied 
himfelf at the battle of Caflano, in which he received 
three wounds. It was this adbion which fuggefted to him 
bis fyftem of .columns, which he afterwards developed in 
his writings. He a (filled in the defence of Modena ; and 
being afterwards called into Flanders, was wounded at the 
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battle of Malplaquet, and taken prifoner. Prince Eu¬ 
gene endeavoured to engage him in the fervice of the em¬ 
peror ; but without efFedb. In 1714, he went to Malta, 
in order to aftift in defending that ifland againft the Turks. 
He was then induced by his admiration of Charles XII. 
to vifit Sweden ; and lie wad entrufted by that monarch 
to negociate with the court of France a projedbed invafion 
of Scotland, for the reftoration of James II. When that 
fcheme failed, Folard returned to Sweden, and was with 
Charles at the fiege of Fredericlliall, where he met his 
fate. He ferved his concluding campaign, in 1719, as 
meftre.de-camp underthe duke of Berwick. After that pe¬ 
riod he devoted himfelf to ftudy and retirement. In 1727, 
he publifhed his great work, Commentaries on Poly¬ 
bius, 6 vols. 4to. which, notwithftanding its prolixity, 
contains much excellent matter, and was highly efteemed. 
He alfo wrote New Difcoveries refpedbing War; A 
Treatife on the Defence of Places; and ATreatife on 
the Duty of a Partifan. He became a member of the 
Royal Society of London in 1749. He poflefled the go¬ 
vernment of Bourbourg for the laft forty years of his life ; 
and died at Avignon in 1752, at the age of eighty-three. 
FOLD, f. [palseb, palb, Sax.] The ground in which 
Iheep are confined: 
His eyes he open’d, and beheld a field 
Part arable and tilth ; whereon were (heaves. 
New reap’d; the other part, (lieepwalks and folds. Milton - 
The place where (beep are houfed: 
Time drives the flocks from field to fold, 
When rivers rage and rocks grow cold ; 
And Philomel becometh dumb, 
And all complain of cares to come. Raleigh. 
The flock of (beep : 
And this you fee I fcarcely drag along. 
Who yeaning on the rocks has left her young. 
The hope and promife of my failing/o/af. Drydcn. 
A limit; a boundary : 
Secure from meeting, they’re diftindbly roll’d ; 
Nor leave their feats, and pafs the dreadful fold. Creech. 
[From pilb, Sax.] A double; a complication ; an in¬ 
volution; one part added to another; one part doubled 
upon anotiier.—The ancient Egyptian mummies were 
(hrouded in a number of folds ofi linen, befmeared with 
gums. Bacon. 
Not with indented wave, the ferpent then 
Prone on tlie ground, as fince ; but on his rear 
Circular bale of citing folds, that tower’d 
Fold above fold, a (urging maze ! Milton. 
From the foregoing fignincation is derived the ufe of fold 
in compofition. Fold fignifies the fame quantity added : 
as two fold, twice the quantity; twenty fold, twenty times 
repeated.—But other fell into good ground, and brought 
forth fruit ; fome an hundred fold, fome fxty fold, lome 
thirty fold. Matt. 
Their martyr’d blood and afhes fovv 
O’er all th’ Italian fields, where (bill doth fway 
The triple tyrant; that from thefe may grow 
A hundred fold. Milton. 
To FOI.D, v. a. To (hut (lieep in the fold.—We fee 
that the folding of (beep helps ground, as well by their 
warmth as by their comport. Bacon. 
The (bar that bids the (hepherd fold, 
Now the top of heav’n doth hold. Milton. 
[Falban, Sax.] To double; to complicate.—As a vef- 
ture (halt thou fold them up. Hob. i. 12.—Yet a little 
deep, a little (lumber, a little folding of the hands to deep. 
Prov. vi. 10.—They be fclden together as thorns. Nah. i. 
10.—I have feen her rife from her bed, unlock herclofet, 
take forth paper, fold it, write upon’t, read it, feal it, and 
again return to bed, Skakejpeare .— Confcious of its own 
impotence^ 
