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61JUSSIEU, ANTOINE LAURENT DE — celebrated French botanist, born at Lyons; his book, entitled Genera Plantarum, published in 1789, lays down the principle on which the modern classification of plants is based; he was one of a family of botanists (1748 1836) …
62LAFONTAINE, JEAN DE — celebrated French author, born at Château Thierry, in Champagne; a man of indolent, gay, and dissipated habits, but of resplendent genius, known to all the world for his inimitable Tales and Fables, and who was the peer of all the… …
63LEONARDO DA VINCI — celebrated painter and sculptor of the Florentine school, born at Vinci in the Val d Arno; showed early a wonderful aptitude for art; studied under Andrea del Verrocchio, but so surpassed him in his work as to drive him to renounce the painter …
64LYELL, SIR CHARLES — celebrated English geologist, born at Kinnordy, in Forfarshire; bred for and called to the bar; he left his practice, and gave himself to the study of geology, to which he had been attracted by Alexander Buckland s lectures when he was at… …
65MARTIN, HENRI — celebrated French historian, born at Saint Quentin; devoted his life to the study of the history of France; wrote an account of it, entitled Histoire de France, a magnificent work in 19 volumes; brought the history down to 1789, and received… …
66MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY, FELIX — celebrated German composer, grandson of the succeeding, born in Hamburg; he began to compose early in life, and his compositions consisted of symphonies, operas, oratorios, and church music; his oratorios of St. Paul and Elijah are well known …
67MONGE, GASPARD — celebrated French mathematician, born at Beaune; one of the founders of the Polytechnic School in Paris (1746 1818) …
68MÜLLER, JOHANNES VON — celebrated historian, born at Schaffhausen, the History of Switzerland his principal work (1752 1809) …
69NECKER, JACQUES — celebrated financier, born at Geneva, banker in Paris; married the accomplished Susanne Curchod, the rejected of Gibbon, and became by her the father of Mme. de Staël; was a man of high repute for probity and business capacity; became in 1777… …
70NESSELRODE, COUNT VON — celebrated Russian diplomatist, born at Lisbon, where his father was Russian ambassador; represented Russia at a succession of congresses, played a prominent part at them, and directed the foreign policy of the empire under Alexander I. and… …
