Rottee

See Rotti. Rotten burg (rot'ten-börg). A town in the Black Forest circle, Würtemberg, situated on the Neckar 24 miles south-southwest of Stuttgart. Population (1890), 6,912. Rotten Row (rot'n ro). [From F. Route du Roi , the king's way.] A fashionable thoroughfare for equestrians, in Hyde Park, London, extending west from Hyde Park Corner for 14 miles. "The old royal route from the palace of the Plantage net kings at Westminster to the royal hunting forests was by what are now called 'Birdcage Walk,' 'Constitution Hall,' and 'Rotten Row'; and this road was kept sacred to royalty, the only other person allowed to use it being (from its a ociation with the hunting-grounds) the Grand Falconer of England." Hare , London, II. 107. Rotter dam (rot'èr-dam; D. pron. rot-ter-däm′). [From the river Rotte.) A city and seaport in the province of South Holland, Netherlands, situated at the junction of the Rotte with the Nieuwe Maas (or New Meuse), in lat. 51° 55′ N., long. 4° 29′ E. It is the second seaport of the country and the second city in population; and has extensive sea commerce and river traffic with Belgium, Germany, etc. Its trade in colonial products is very large. It is the terminus of a steamship line to New York; and has ship-building industries and manufactures of machinery, sugar, tobacco, etc. It consists of an outer and an inner city. Among the objects of interest are Boyman's Museum, the quays, Church of St. Lawrence, Bourse, etc. The town was developed in the papustio 1900 burned in 1563, and was taken by Spaniards in 1572. It 332,185. Rotti, or Rottee (rot'te). One of the smaller islands of the Dutch East Indies, situated southwest of Timor. Rottweil (rot'vil). Atown in the Black Forest circle, Würtemberg, situated on the Neckar 50 miles southwest of Stuttgart: formerly a free imperial city. Population (1890), 6,912. Rotuma (ro-tömä). A small island in the South Pacific, belonging to the British, situated in lat. 12° 30' S., long. 177° 5' E., north of the Fiji Islands, of which it is a dependency. It was annexed by the British in 1880. Rouarie (rö-ä-re'), Marquis de la (Armand Teffin). Born near Rennes, France, 1756: died near Lamballe, France, Jan. 30, 1793. A French officer. He served in the American Revolutionary War 1777-82; and was a royalist agitator in Britt any 1791-93. Roubaix (rö-bā'). A city in the department of Nord, France, 5 miles northeast of Lille. It is a leading industrial center. The principal manufactures are woolen, cotton, silk, dyes, etc. It developed notably in the 19th century. Population (1901), 124,660. Roubillac (rö-bē-yäk'), Louis François. Born at Lyons, 1695: died at London, Jan. 11, 1762. A French sculptor (known in England under the name Roubiliac), a pupil of Balthazar in Dresden and of Nicholas Coustou in Paris. In 1730 he won the second grand prix in sculpture. In 1744 he went to England, and was a protégé of the Walpole family. In 1745 he went to Rome. On his return to Eng-. land he executed a number of monuments in the great churches. His chief works are the statue of Handel at Vauxhall; the monument to Duke John of Argyll in Westminster Abbey, which Canova called the best work in England; the statue of Shakspere for David Garrick, now in the British Museum; the monument of the Duke and Duche of Montagu at Bought on; etc. Roucouennes (rö-kö-enz'). [From roucou , arnotto, with which they paint themselves.] Indians of the Carib stock in the southern part of French Guiana. They are probably remnants of the true Caribs or Galibis, which have been driven from the coast and have retained their independence in the interior. Rouen (rö-on'). The capital of the department of Seine-Inférieure, France, situated on the Seine, at its junction with the Aubette and Robee, in lat. 49° 25′ N., long. 1° 5' E.: the Roman Rotomagus and medieval Rodomum. It is Rouen and Cardinal d'Amboise, and much rich 13th-century gla . The length of the cathedral is 447 feet; the height of the nave, 92. The abbey church of St. Ouen, a celebrated monument of great size and harmony of design, was built in the 14th and 15th centuries, except the façade, which was finished only recently in a somewhat earlier style than the remainder. The central lantern is as famous for grace and lightne as that of Burgos. Other beauties are the porch of the south transept and the admirable grouping of the apse and radiating chapels. The interior is very light and effective, the wall-spaces being reduced to a minimum. The length is 453 feet; the height of the nave, 106. Other objects of interest are the churches of St. Maclou, of St. Vincent, of St. Godard, and of St. Patrice, Palais de Justice, industrial and commercial museum, Corneille's house, library, musée, Hôtel du Bourgthéroulde, Hôtel de Ville, an museum of natural history here are schools of theology, medicine, and agriculture. The city was the birthplace of Pierre and Thomas Corneille and of Boieldieu. It was the capital of Lugdunensis II.; became the seat of a bishopric about 300; and was several times sacked by the Normans, who finally settled there and made it the capital of Normandy. Arthur of Britt any is said to have been murdered at Rouen. It was taken by Philip II. in 1204; was taken by Henry V. of England in 1419, and recovered by the French in 1449; was the scene of the burn resisted Henry IV. of France in 1592; and was occupied by Joan of Arc in 1431; suffered in Huguenot wars; the Germans Dec., 1870. Population (1901), 115,914. Rouergue (rö-arg'). An ancient territory of southern France, in the government of Guienne and Gascony, corresponding mainly to the department of Aveyron. It was a county in the middle ages, and was united to the crown in 1525. Rougé (rö-zhā'), Vicomte Olivier Charles Camille Emanuel de. Born at Paris, April 11, 1811: died at his Château Bois-Dauphin, Dec. 31, 1872. A celebrated French Egypt ologist, profe or of archæology at the Collège de France. He is best known from his discovery of the prototypes of the Semitic alphabet in the early Egyptian hieratic. The entire glory of this discovery is due to the genius of a French Egypt ologist, Emanuel de Rougé. The first account of his investigations was given in a paper read before the Académie des Inscriptions in the year 1859. A meagre summary of his results was published at the time in the "Comptes rend us," but by some mischance the MS. itself was lost, and has never been recovered.