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(Encyclopedia) Hanotaux, Gabriel gäbrēĕlˈ änôtōˈ [key], 1853–1944, French historian and statesman. Twice minister of foreign affairs (1894–95, 1895–98), he greatly furthered the Franco-Russian rapproch...

(Encyclopedia) Parras dā lä fwānˈtā [key], city (1990 pop. 26,160), Coahuila state, N Mexico. It is a road and rail junction located in a well-watered valley of a semiarid region. Parras, an agricultural center...

(Encyclopedia) Blois blwä [key], town, capital of Loir-et-Cher dept., central France, in Orléanais, on the...

(Encyclopedia) Laudonnière, René Goulaine de rənāˈ go͞olĕnˈ də lōdônyĕrˈ [key], fl. 1562–82, French colonizer in Florida. After accompanying Jean Ribaut on the first French expedition to Florida (1562...

(Encyclopedia) Mary of Guise gēz [key], 1515–60, queen consort of James V of Scotland and regent for her daughter, Mary Queen of Scots. The daughter of Claude de Lorraine, duc de Guise, she was also known as Mary...

(Encyclopedia) Monge, Gaspard, comte de Péluse gäspärˈ môNzh kôNt də pālüzˈ [key], 1746–1818, French mathematician, physicist, and public official. He was distinguished for his geometrical research, whic...

(Encyclopedia) La Grange Park, village (1990 pop. 12,861), Cook co., NE Ill., a suburb of Chicago; inc. 1892. Pens are manufactured there.

(Encyclopedia) Francis de Sales, Saint, 1567–1622, French Roman Catholic preacher, Doctor of the Church, and key figure in the Counter Reformation in France. He was a member of an aristocratic family of Savoy and ...

(Encyclopedia) Brunschvicg, Léon lāôNˈ brünˈshvēk [key], 1869–1944, French philosopher, b. Paris. From 1909 until his death he taught at the Sorbonne. Brunschvicg's philosophy, which has had considerable in...

(Encyclopedia) Aix-la-Chapelle: see Aachen, Germany. ...