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(Encyclopedia) Saint-Pierre, Jacques Henri Bernardin de: see Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Jacques Henri. ...

(Encyclopedia) Saint Vincent, Cape, Port. Cabo de São Vicente, high and rocky promontory at the southwestern extremity of Portugal. Several historic sea battles were fought nearby, the most notable in 1797, when th...

(Encyclopedia) Brébeuf, Jean de, Saint zhäN də brāböfˈ [key], 1593–1649, French Roman Catholic missionary, one of the Jesuit Martyrs of North America. A Norman, he was sent (1625) to Quebec and did missionar...

(Encyclopedia) Garcilaso de la Vega gärsēläˈsō dā lä vāˈgä [key], 1539–1616, Peruvian historian; son of the Spanish conquistador Sebastián Garcilaso de la Vega and an Incan princess and therefore called...

(Encyclopedia) De la Ramée, Louise: see Ouida.

(Encyclopedia) Tortue, Île de la: see Tortuga.

(Encyclopedia) La Harpe, Frédéric César de frādārēkˈ sāzärˈ də lä ärp [key], 1754–1838, Swiss statesman. He went (1782) to St. Petersburg, Russia, where he became the tutor of the future Czar Alexande...

(Encyclopedia) Île de la Cité, France: see Paris. ...

(Encyclopedia) Pole, Richard de la: see Pole, family. ...

(Encyclopedia) Pole, William de la: see Pole, family. ...