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thiirip.i’(liK I’.efs of Brnganza, orders v.-ere ifToed for his 
'arreftation. He had time, however, to el'cape to iiis ab¬ 
bey, where iie remained till the acceffion of John IV. to 
the crown of Portugal in 1640. Upon that event lie re¬ 
paired to Lifbon, where he was received with di(lfn6Hon 
by fheking and the prince of Brazil, and wasoftered the 
poll of preceptor to the prince Alionfo, which he de¬ 
clined. Upon tire death of his father he returned to 
Lifbon to fettle hisfamily afl'airs, and continued there, de¬ 
voted- to his ftiidies, till his death, in 1657. Freire de 
Andrada was an elegant writer in his own language ; and 
liis LifeofUon John de Caflro is reckoned one of the bed 
coinpofed works in the Portnguefe language. It has been 
tranflated into Latin. He alfo wrote Come poems, which 
are contained in a collection printed at Lilbon in 1717, 
under the title of Fenix Puhacida. He was of a frank and 
generous cliaraCter, pleufant in converfation, liberal to 
the poor, and attached to his friends, whom he defended 
in their abfence, though he would freely reproach them 
with their faults face to face. 
FREI SACH, a town of Germany, in the diicliy of 
Carintliia, belonging to the arclibifhopric of Salzburg, 
lituated ott the Metnitz. It has a caflle, college, a con¬ 
vent of Dominicans, and a commandery of the Teutonic 
order: four miles nortli-north-eafl; of Gurck, and eight 
north of St. Veit. 
FREISCH'B ACH, a town of Germany, in the palati¬ 
nate of the Rhine, taken by the French in 1794 : fix miles 
eaft-nortli-eafl of Landau. 
FRE'JUS, or Frejui.s, a town of France, and princi¬ 
pal place of a didriCt, i'h the department of the Var ; 
fotmeriy a feaport, but now at two miles from the Tea. 
It was flouridling as early as the time of Julius Caefar, 
being then calledand is fuppofed to have 
been fuunded by a colony from Marfeilles; and many 
inomiments of its ancient grandeur dill remain, fuch as 
an aqueduct, an amphitheatre, datues, inferiptions, &cc. 
Before the revolution, it was a fee of a bidiop, fuffragan 
of Aix :-ten pods foiith-wed of Nice, and 115 fouth- 
Ibiitli-cad of Paris. Lat. 43. 28. N. Ion. 24. 24. E. Ferro. 
FREIXIR'RA, a town of Portugal, in the province 
of Entre Dikero e Minho : two leagues and a half north- 
ead of Amarante. 
FREI'XEL, a town of Portugal, in the province of 
Tra Ics Montes : five leagues foiith of Mirandela. 
FRE'MINET (Martin), a French painter, born at 
Paris in 1567. He was brought up under his father, a 
painter of little merit, but foon difplayed a genius fupe- 
rior to his education. At the age of twenty-five he vilited 
Italy, in which country he remained fixteen years. He 
was captivated with the fublime charaCfer of Michael 
Angelo, and vtith the dyle of Parmegiano in the contour 
of his figures and air of his heads. He was employed in 
the palace of tlie dnke of Savoy ; but returning at length 
to his ow'n country, lie was made fird painterto Henry IV. 
wlio committed to him the decoration of his chapel at. 
Fontaiiibleau. After the death of that king, he was 
continued in tlie fiarie employment by Louis XIII. who 
created liim a knight of the order of St. Michael. He is 
reckoned to have excelled in compofition, and to have 
been well acquainted with anatomy, perfpeCfive, and ar¬ 
chitecture. But he delighted in diewing his fkili by giv¬ 
ing extraordinary outlines to his figures, by marking the 
niiifcles and linews with great didinClnefs, and putting 
them into violent and condrained motions. Hence Ills 
dyle of painting is hard, and there is little of beauty or 
loftnefs in his woiks. He died in 1619, while fiiiidiing 
the chajicl of Fonrtiinbleau. The ceiling of this edifice 
is the mod conflderable of his works: it is divided into 
feveral compartments, forming different pictures on fa- 
cred ftibjeCts. Nine valuable prints of fcriptiire pieces 
liave been engraved from this inader. 
F'REMONA, a town of Abyffinia, in the kingdom of 
Tigre, where the Portuguefe miflionaries took up their 
fird refideiice^; 135 miles from the iflaiid of Maffua. 
F R E 
FREMO'NT D’ABLANCOURT (Nicholas de), ne- 
phew of the celebrated Perrot'd’Ablancourt. He was 
carefully educated under his uncle, and early didinguifh- 
ed himfelf by his knotvledge and talents. Tlirough the 
reconimendation of M. de Turenne he was appointed, in 
1663, envoy from France to the court of Portugal j and 
in 1675, official refident at Strafbiirg. Alter the death 
of Ills patron lie retttrned to France, and Ipent his time 
in dudy and the fociety of the learned. As he was a 
deady Protedant, the revocation of the ediCt of Nantes 
caufed him to quit his country, and he took up his abode 
in Holland. He was highly edeemed by the prince and 
princefs of Orange, and obtained a penfion from them, 
with the title of hidoriographer. One of his principal cor- 
refpondents was the learned Richard Simon, in whofe 
letters he is ufually defignated under the name of Caraite. 
This edimable perfon died in 1693. He added to his 
uncle’s trandation of Lucian, the Dialogue’between the 
Letters of the Alphabet, and the Supplement to the 
True Hidory. In 1664 lie publillied feme elegant 
Dialogues. He defended his uncle’s trandation of Taci¬ 
tus againd the driCtures of Anielot de la Houffaye in a 
publication in 16S6, written with an acrimony not expeCl- 
cd from One of liis niildnefs in converfation. He pub- 
lillied a French Catechifin; and after his death appeared 
his Memoirs concerning the Hidory of Portugal, from 
the Treaty of the Pyrenees to 1668, jzmo. Pari.-, 1701. 
FRE'MUND, [ppeoh, free, and CDunb, peace, Sax.J 
A proper name. 
FREN,yi A dranger. An old word wholly forgotten 
here; but retained in Scotland. Beattie. 
But now from me his madding mind is dart. 
And wooes the widow’s daughter of the glen ; 
And now fair Rofalind hath bred his fmart, 
So now his friend is changed for a fren, Spenfer, 
FRENAY'-le-VICOMTE, a town of France, and 
principal place of a didrift, in the department of the 
Sarte : three leagues fouth-fouth-vved of Alenyon, and 
fix north le Mans. Lat. 48. 17. N. Ion. 17. 41. E. Ferro. 
• FRENAY'E (La), a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Sarte, and chief place of a canton, in the 
didrift of Mamers : two leagues ead of Alenpon. 
FRENCH, adj. Any thing produced in, or belonging 
to France : the French language, French cudoms, poli¬ 
ty, See. See the article France. 
FRENCH, a river of North America, in Maffaclni- 
fetts, has its fource in a I'mall pond, on the borders of 
Leiceder and Spenfer, in Worceder county, and runs 
through Oxford and joins (Luinebauge river, in Thomp- 
fon townlhip, in Connefticut. It derives its name from 
the French Protedants, who obtained a fettlement in the 
town of Oxford, after the revocation of the edift of 
Nantz, ill 1685. 
FRENCH AMERICA. The only part of the continent 
which the French nation now poffefs, is the didrift or 
province of Cayenne, and the ifland of the fame name‘on 
its coad, in Soutli America. In the Wed Indies the 
French claim the following iflands, though feveral of 
them are taken by the Englifh : to which the reader is 
referred for a particular defeription : St. Domingo, or 
Hifpaniola, now called, by Deffalines, Hayti ; Gauda- 
loi#pe, St. Lucia, Tobago, St. Bartholomew, Defeada, 
and Ivlarigalante. The French were among the lad na¬ 
tions who made fettlements in ti e Wed Indies; but they 
made ample amends by the vigour with which they pur- 
fiied them, and by that chain of judicious meafures which 
they ufed in drawing from them every advantage that the 
nature of the climate would yiehl, and In contending 
againd the dil^culties which it threw in their way. 
FRENCH BEAN. See Phasfolus. , 
FRENCH BROAD, a navigable river of North Ame¬ 
rica, in Tenneffee, which rifes on the fouth-ead fide of 
the Great Iron and Bald mountains, in'North Carolina. 
It is formed by two main branches, which receive feveral 
dreams 
