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Charolais

(Encyclopedia) CharolaisCharolaisshärôlāˈ [key], small region, Saône-et-Loire dept., E central France, in Burgundy, in the Massif Central, named after the town of Charolles. Cattle breeding is the…

Ortelius, Abraham

(Encyclopedia) Ortelius, AbrahamOrtelius, Abrahamôrtēˈlyəs [key], 1527–98, Flemish geographer, of German origin. Next to his contemporary Mercator, he is the most renowned of the 16th-century Flemish…

Anne of Austria

(Encyclopedia) Anne of Austria, 1601–66, queen of France, daughter of King Philip III of Spain. Married to the French king Louis XIII (1615), she was neglected by her husband and sought the society…

Dekker, Thomas

(Encyclopedia) Dekker, Thomas, c,1570–1632, English dramatist and pamphleteer. Little is known of his life except that he frequently suffered from poverty and served several prison terms for debt. He…

Alba, Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, duque de

(Encyclopedia) Alba or Alva, Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, duque deAlba or Alva, Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, duque deălˈbə, ălˈvə, Span. both: fārnänˈdō älˈvärāth dā tōlāˈᵺō d&oomacr;ˈkā dā älˈvä […

Herod

(Encyclopedia) Herod, dynasty reigning in Palestine at the time of Jesus. As a dynasty the Herods depended largely on the power of Rome. They are usually blamed for the state of virtual anarchy in…

Eyck, van

(Encyclopedia) Eyck, vanEyck, vanvăn īk [key], family of Flemish painters, the brothers Hubert van Eyck, c.1370–1426, and Jan van Eyck, c.1390–1441. Of the van Eycks' works that have survived, the…

Louis, titular duke of Burgundy

(Encyclopedia) Louis, 1682–1712, titular duke of Burgundy; grandson of King Louis XIV of France. He became heir to the throne on the death (1711) of his father, Louis the Great Dauphin. François de…

Luchaire, Achille

(Encyclopedia) Luchaire, AchilleLuchaire, Achilleäshēlˈ lüshĕrˈ [key], 1846–1908, French historian. He edited, in collaboration with Berthold Zeller, L'Histoire de France racontée par les…