On the 3d of December at M. Abbatucci's house, 31, Rue Caumartin, in the presence of Dr. Conneau and of Piétri, a Corsican, born at Vezzani, named Jacques François Criscelli, a man attached to the secret and personal service of Louis Bonaparte, had received from Piétri's own mouth the offer of 25,000 francs "to take or kill Victor Hugo."

Parle François, mon petit garçon.

Murder of François.

He was but fourteen years old when he left his peaceful and thoroughly whitewashed home on the banks of the St. François, in company with a knot of Canadian voyageurs, whose principles tended towards the Red River of the North.

" "True," replied I; "but these be wild adventures for one whose boyhood was passed in a peaceful and thoroughly whitewashed home on the banks of the St. François.

It shall be lawful for vessels which have departed or may depart from the United States to enter the ports of Cape François and Port Republicain, formerly called Port-au-Prince, in the said island of St. Domingo, on and after the 1st day of August next.

2. No vessel shall be cleared for any other port in St. Domingo than Cape François and Port Republicain.

And for this purpose it is hereby required that such vessels first enter the port of Cape Francois or Port Republicain, in the said island, and there obtain the passports of the said Government, which shall also be signed by the consul-general or consul of the United States residing at Cape François or Port Republicain, permitting such vessel to go thence to the other ports and places of the said island hereinbefore mentioned and described.

The Cardinal Jean de la Groslaye de Villiers François, Abbot of S. Denys, and commonly called by Italians the Cardinal di San Dionigi, wished to have a specimen of the young sculptor's handiwork.

showed it to François I. as the very table made by Merlin for Uther the pendragon.

AT'ALA, the name of a novel by François Auguste Chateaubriand.

"He lived in the Rue du Temple, where he passed as François Germain.

François Villon cannot be called an edifying specimen of the human family, yet he unmistakably belongs there, and it was to that prince of scalawags that we owe not merely that loveliest sigh in literature"Where are the snows of yester-year?"but so striking a picture of the underworld of medieval Paris that without it we should hardly be able to know the times as they were.

While General von Kluck was endeavouring to resist the thrust of the French and British troops who were massing their guns with great strength on his right, General von Bulow's left wing, with the Saxon army and the Prince of Wurtemberg's army, made desperate attempts to break the French centre by violent attacks to the north of Sezanne and Vitry-le- François.

R77710, 11Apr51, Esther B. Mills (W) MIREPOIX, ANTOINE FRANÇOIS JOSEPH PIERRE MARIE, duc de LÉVIS. SEE Lévis-Mirepoix, Antoine François Joseph Pierre Marie, duc de. MISSOURI decisions reported in the Southwestern reporter annotated.

R77710, 11Apr51, Esther B. Mills (W) MIREPOIX, ANTOINE FRANÇOIS JOSEPH PIERRE MARIE, duc de LÉVIS. SEE Lévis-Mirepoix, Antoine François Joseph Pierre Marie, duc de. MISSOURI decisions reported in the Southwestern reporter annotated.

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GÉRARD, FRANÇOIS PASCAL SIMON, BARON, painter, born at Rome, of French and Italian parentage; came to Paris when a youth, where he studied painting under David; in 1795 his "Blind Belisarius" brought him to the front, whilst subsequent work as a portrait-painter raised him above all his contemporaries; his masterpiece, "Entry of Henri IV.

HALÉVY, JACQUES FRANÇOIS ELIAS, a French operatic composer, born at Paris; became a professor at the Conservatoire; wrote a large number of operas, of which "La Juive" and "L'Éclair" were the best, and enjoyed a European reputation (1799-1862).

Edmond François Valentin About had a freakish, evasive, many-sided personality, a nature drawn in too many directions to achieve in any one of these the success his talents warranted.

Went to Versailles, in company with Mr. Lee, Mr. Izard and his lady, Mr. Lloyd and his lady, and Mr. François.

It was past meridian, on one of those days of moderate exertion, that François was seen stealing from below, and staggering from gun to gun, to a place in the centre of the ship, where he habitually took the air, in good weather, and where he might dispose of his person, equally without presuming too far on the good-nature of his superiors, and without courting too much intimacy with the coarser herd who composed the common crew.

" "Ma foi, non!"exclaimed François, recoiling a pace, between amazement and delight.

Quand je vous dis qu'il vous aime, j'entends qu'il est amoureux de vous, en bon françois; qu'il est ce qu'on appelle amoureux; qu'il soupire pour vous; que vous êtes l'objet secret de sa tendresse.