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La Chaise, François d'Aix de

(Encyclopedia)La Chaise, François d'Aix de fräNswäˈ dāks də lä shĕz [key], 1624–1709, French Jesuit, confessor of Louis XIV after 1675. His influence at court was considerable. The great cemetery in NE Pa...

Maisons-Alfort

(Encyclopedia)Maisons-Alfort māzôNz-älfôrˈ [key], suburb SE of Paris (1990 pop. 54,065), Val-de-Marne dept., N central France. There is some agriculture, but it is mainly an industrial town producing chemicals...

Marchesi, Mathilde

(Encyclopedia)Marchesi, Mathilde mätēlˈdə märkāˈzē [key], 1821–1913, German mezzo-soprano whose maiden name was Graumann; pupil of Manuel García. She was known especially as the teacher of such singers a...

Rodoreda, Mercè

(Encyclopedia)Rodoreda, Mercè, 1909–83, Spanish novelist writing in Catalan. Exiled for several decades in Paris and Geneva following the Spanish Civil War, Rodoreda focuses her novel Time of the Doves (1962, tr...

Deauville

(Encyclopedia)Deauville dōvēlˈ [key], town (1993 est. pop. 4,380), Calvados dept., N France, on the English Channel. A fashionable resort, it has a famous racecourse and a gambling casino. Tourism has increased ...

Dickson, Leonard Eugene

(Encyclopedia)Dickson, Leonard Eugene, 1874–1954, American mathematician, b. Independence, Iowa, grad. Univ. of Texas, 1893. He studied in Leipzig and Paris and joined the staff of the Univ. of Chicago in 1900. A...

Évry

(Encyclopedia)Évry āvrēˈ [key], town, capital of Essonne dept., N central France. The major industry is...

Pathé, Charles

(Encyclopedia)Pathé, Charles păthāˈ, Fr. shärl pätāˈ [key], 1873–1957, French photographer. He was the first to present (c.1909) the newsreel as a regular attraction at a theater in Paris. In 1910 he intr...

Duane, William, American physicist

(Encyclopedia)Duane, William, 1872–1935, American physicist, b. Philadelphia, grad. Harvard, 1893, Ph.D. Univ. of Berlin, 1897. He taught at the Univ. of Colorado (1898–1907), worked at the Curie radium laborat...

Haüy, René Just, Abbé

(Encyclopedia)Haüy, René Just, Abbé rənāˈ zhüst äbāˈ äüēˈ [key], 1743–1822, French mineralogist, an authority on crystals. He discovered the geometric law of crystallization and wrote many books and...