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(Encyclopedia) Artagnan, Charles de Batz-Castelmore d' shärl də bäts–kästĕlmôrˈ därtänyäNˈ [key], c.1620–1673, French soldier under King Louis XIV. He fell at the siege of Maastricht. Dumas père used...

(Encyclopedia) Carlisle, Charles Howard, 1st earl of kärlīlˈ [key], 1629–85, English statesman. A member of the prominent Howard family, he held various offices under Oliver Cromwell and remained in favor after...

(Encyclopedia) Boyle, Charles, 4th earl of Orrery: see Orrery, Charles Boyle, 4th earl of. ...

(Encyclopedia) Howard, Charles, 1st earl of Carlisle: see Carlisle, Charles Howard, 1st earl of. ...

(Encyclopedia) Howard of Effingham, Charles Howard, 2d Baron: see Nottingham, Charles Howard, 1st earl of. ...

(Encyclopedia) Keating, Charles Humphrey, Jr., 1923–2014, American banker, b. Cincinnati, grad. Univ. of Cincinnati College of Law (1948). Keating was a partner (1952–72) in a law firm he founded with his brothe...

(Encyclopedia) Allais, Maurice Félix Charles môrēsˈ shärl älĕˈ [key], 1911–2010, French economist, Ph.D. Univ. of Paris, 1949. After working in the French mine administration, he joined the École National...

(Encyclopedia) Charles XIV (Charles John; Jean Baptiste Jules Bernadotte) zhäN bäptēstˈ zhül bĕrnädôtˈ [key], 1763–1844, king of Sweden and Norway (1818–44), French Revolutionary general. Bernadotte ros...

(Encyclopedia) Charles I (Charles of Anjou), 1227–85, king of Naples and Sicily (1266–85), count of Anjou and Provence, youngest brother of King Louis IX of France. He took part in Louis's crusades to Egypt (124...

(Encyclopedia) Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827–1908, American scholar and teacher, b. Cambridge, Mass., grad. Harvard, 1846. As professor of the history of art at Harvard (1875–98) and as a man of letters he had a s...