Augereau, PIERRE

FRANÇOIS CHARLES, DUC DE CASTILIONE, 1757-1816. French marshal 1806. As general of division, 1796, he helped to win the victories of Lodi, Castiglione, and Arcola. He gained further honor at Jena 1806, and Leipzig 1813. Augier, GUILLAUME VICTOR EMILE, 1820-1889. French dramatist; Academician 1857. He excelled as a wit and satirist. Perhaps his most noted plays are The Adventure and Gabrielle , 1848-49. Augite. Variety of pyroxene, common as an ingredient of crystalline rocks. It consists of silicates of lime and mag IMG:content-0368.jpg:[blocks in formation] nesia, the latter being sometimes replaced by ferrous oxide. It crystallizes in 6 or 8-sided prisms.