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Giraud (zhe-roō'), Pierre François Eugène. Born at Paris, Aug. 9, 1806: died there, Dec. 29, 1881. A French painter, a pupil of the École des Beaux Arts. He studied in Italy, and later traveled in Spain and the East. The subjects of his principal works are historical and Oriental. Giraud, Sébastien Charles. Born at Paris, Jan. 18, 1819: died there, 1892 (1886, Vapereau). A French painter, brother of P. F. E. Giraud. Girbaden (gir'bä-den), Castle of. An imposing ruin with a ma ive square donjon, near Grendelbruch, in Lower Alsace, said once to have po e ed 14 gates and 14 courts. The inner fortre is of the 10th century, the outer castle of the early 13th. The great hall has fine windows framed between clustered colon net tes. Girgashites (ger'ga-shits). See the extract. As for the Girgashite who is coupled with the Jebusite the Dordogne. Length, about 45 miles.-2. A department of southwestern France, capital Bordeaux: part of the ancient Guienne. It is bounded by Charente-Inférieure on the north, Dordogne and Lot-et-Garonne on the east, Landes on the south, and the Bay of Biscay the west. The surface is generally level. Gironde is noted for the production of clarine Area, 3,761 square miles. Population (1891), 793,528. Girondins (ji-ron'dinz). Same as Girondists . Girondists (ji-ron'dists). [From F. Girondiste , from Gironde , a party so called: prop. a department of France from which the original leaders of this party came.] An important political party during the first French Revolution. From Bri ot, they were sometimes called Bri otins. They were moderate Republicans, were the ruling party in 1792, and were overthrown by their opponents in the Convention, the Montagnards, in 1793; and many of their chiefs were executed during the night of Oct. 30-31 of that year, including Bri ot, Gensonné, Vergniaud, Ducos, and Sillery. Other executions followed both at Paris and in the provinces. no graphical table of Genesis. He there appears between the Amorite and the Hivite, and consequently in that northern part of the country in which the Hivites were more especially found. Further than this conjecture alone can lead us. Sayce, Races of the O. T., p. 122. Girgeh (jēr'je). 1. A province of Upper Egypt. -2. A town in the province of Girgeh, situated on the Nile in lat. 26°18′ N. Population (1882), 14,819. Girgenti (jēr-jen'tē). A province in southwestern Sicily. Area, 1,172 square miles. Population (1891), 337,983. Girgenti. The capital of the province of Girgenti, Sicily, situated on the Girgenti, near the coast, in lat. 37° 18' N., long. 13° 34′ E.: the ancient Roman Agrigentum and the Greek Akragas. See Agrigentum . The site is of high archæological interest from its abundant remains of Doric temples and other Greek structures dating from before the Cartha ginian conquest. All the temples belong to the finest period architecture. The so-called temple of Concord is the most perfect surviving monuments of Hellenic antiquity. It is a Doric peripteros of 6 by 13 columns, on a stylo. bate of 3 steps, measuring (steps included) 64 by 138 feet. The base diameter of the columns is 45 feet, their height 22. There are two columns in antis in both pronaos and opisthodomos. It stands practically complete, except the roof, and is most imposing in effect. The temple of Hera Lacinia, of the first half of the 5th century B. C., is now a ruin. It is a Doric peripteros of 6 by 13 columns, measuring (steps included) 64 by 138 feet. The base diameter of the columns is 41 feet, their height 21. The cella had two columns in antis in both pronaos and opisthodomos, and retains a portion of the base of the cult statue. The temple of Zeus (Jupiter) is a very large 5th-century Greek Doric temple of unusual plan. It was pseudo peripteral, with 7 engaged columns on the fronts and 14 on the flanks, and measured 350 feet in length, 180 in width, and 120 in height. The interior of the cella was surrounded with pilasters supporting an epistyle, upon which stood telamones to receive the ceiling-beams. There was a pronaos and an opisthodomos, lighted by windows between the semi-columns. In the eastern pediment there was a gigantomachy in high relief, in the western an Iliupersis. The temple of Castor and Pollux is a Doric peripteros of 6 by 13 columns, measuring (steps included) 51 by 111 feet. The base diameter of the columns is 3 feet, their height 21. Only four columns of the northwest angle are standing, with their entablature and a portion of the pediment. The rough stone has a coating of fine stucco, upon which the painted decoration was executed. The temple of Heraclesis a Doric peripteros of 6 by 15 columns, measuring (steps included) 73 by 241 feet. The columns were about 33 feet high (4) diameters). There were inner porticos before both pronaos and opisthodomos. Fragments of its poly chrome decoration are preserved at Palermo. The pretor Verres attempted to steal its cult statue, but was forcibly hindered by the citizens. The city has a cathedral and a museum. It was for a time a Saracen po e ion, and was a rich bishopric in the middle ages. Its seaport, Porto Empedocle, has a large export of sulphur. Population (estimated, 1891), 24,000. Girnar (gir-när'). A mountain in the peninsula of Kathiawar, India, near Junagadh, famous for its Jain temples. Height, 3,666 feet. Girodet Trioson (zhe-ro-da' tre-o-zón), Anne Louis (originally Girodet de Rou y). Born at Montargis, France, Jan. 5, 1767: died at Paris, Dec. 19, 1824. A French painter, a pupil of L. David. He won the grand prix de Rome in 1789. Among his best works are "Scène du déluge" (1806), "Burial of Atala" (1808), etc. He was adopted by a phys i cian named Trioson. Giromagny (zhe-rō-män-ye'). A town in the territory of Belfort, France, on the Savoureuse 8 miles north of Belfort. Population, about 3,000. Giron (He-rōn'), Francisco Hernandez. Born at Caceres, Estremadura, about 1505: died at Lima, Peru, Dec. 7, 1554. A Spanish adventurer. He went to America in 1535, took part in the conquest of New Granada, and fought on the royal side in Peru during the rebellion of Gonzalo Pizarro, 1545 to 1548. On Nov. 12, 1553, he headed a revolt at Cuzco; defeated the royalists under Alonso de Alvarado at the battle of Chuquingua, May 21, 1554; but later he was outnumbered, captured, and beheaded. the extract. The original story, together with the Meliadus, formed part of the great romance Palamedes (or, as M. Paulin Paris prefers to call the whole, Giron le Cour to is, this personage being the chief hero throughout), written by Elie de Borron, who was alive in the twelfth century, probably about one hundred years before Rusticien, whose composition is the basis of the work as printed.