VILLARS, CLAUDE LOUIS HEC

TOR DE (1653 - 1734), Fr. soldier; served under Condé and Turenne; defeated by Marl borough at Ramillies, 1706, and Malplaquet, 1709, but was military genius of France in War of Span. Succe ion. W.), small seaport, on Ria de VillaNE (44° 21’ N., 2° 2’ E.), town, on Aveyron, Aveyron, France; cathedral; in vicinity, lead-mines, phosphate quarries. Pop. 8,400. (45° 59’ N., 4° 43’ E.), town, Rhone, France; manufactures textiles; was cap. of Beaujoais. Pop. 16,200. (c. 1150c. 1212), Fr. historian; appears as marshal of Champagne and helped to arrange 4th Crusade (1202-4), of which he left account in first Fr. literary Constantinople; previously histories were in Lat. or in verse of chansons de geste and romances. ERY. VILLELE, COMTE DE, JEAN BAPTISTE GUILLAUME MARIE ANNE man; 6. Toulouse; made fortune in West Indies; minister of Finance, 1821; Pres. of Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1822. An extreme royalist and reactionary, his policy, especially in pre restrictions, was one of the provocations of the revolution of 1830; retired, 1828. Alicante, Spain; manufactures silk, town salt. Pop. 14,400.