The name "Gaul" has never fully died out as the designation of France

How does the case stand in what was so long the common language of Europe? The most pedantic Ciceroni an never scrupled to talk familiarly about Anglus and Anglia;; but Francus and Francia are are hardly known except in language more or le formal. Gallus, Gallia, Galliarum Rex, are constantly used by writers who would never think of an analogous use of Britannus and Britannia. In ecclesiastical matters Gaul has always remained even the formal designation. The Gallican Church answers to the Anglican, the Primate of the Gauls to the Primate of All England. Freeman , Hist. E ays, I. 165. 2. One of the four prefectures of the later Roman Empire. It comprised the dioceses of Spain, Gaul, and Britain, and corresponded to Spain, Portugal, a small strip of Morocco, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Holland and Germany to the Rhine, England, Wales, and the south of Scotland. 3. A diocese of the later Roman prefecture of Gaul. It was included between the Atlantic, the English Channel, the North Sea, the Rhine, the Alps, the Mediter4. An old name of Wales, as in "Amadis de Gaul." ranean, and the Pyrenees. This general opinion, that Wales was the country of Amadis, was not an unnatural one, since Gaules and Gaula, in old English, was the name for Wales as well as France: -"I say Gallia and Gaul - French and Welsh - soul-curer gal, India, near the Ganges south of Malda. From the 13th century it was the usual capital of the Mohammedan viceroys of Bengal and kings of Bengal. It fell into ruins from about 1575. Gaur (in Afghanistan). See Ghur . Gaurisankar. Mount Everest. Marcella" (1852), and "Le roman de la momie" (1856). Не wrote "Fortunio" for the "Figaro" (1837), and "Le Capitaine Fraca e" for "La Revue Nation ale" (Dec., 1861,June, 1863). Other stories of his are "La toison d'or," "Omphale," "Le petit chien de la marquise," "Le nid de ro ignols" (1833), "La morte amoureuse" (1836), "La chaine d'or," "Une nuit de Cléopâtre" (1845), "Jean et Jeannette" (1846), "Les roués innocents," "Le roi Candaule" (1847), "La belle Jenny," "La peau de tigre" (18641865), "Spirite" (1866), "Ménagerie intime" (1869), "Partie carrée," "Mademoiselle Dafné," "Tableaux de siège," etc. For the stage Gautier wrote "Le Tricorne enchanté," "Pierrot posthume" (1845), "La Juive de Const an tine" (1846), "Regardez mais n'y touchez pas" (1847), "L'Amour souffle où il veut," etc. His works of pure fantasy are "Une lar me du diable" (1839), and themes for ballets, as "Gizelle" (1841), "La péri" (1843), "Gemma" (1854), and "Sakountala" (1858). Gautier's poems from 1833 to 1838 were gathered under the title "La comédie de la mort." His later poetical compositions appeared as "Emaux et camées" (1852). Besides collaborating one His to ire des peintres (1847), Gautier independently "Le salon de peinture de 1847," "L'Art moderne" (1852), "Les beaux-arts en Europe" (1852), and "His to ire de l'art théâtral en France depuis vingt-cing ans" (1860) Scattered sketches by Gautier have appeared, since their author's death, under the collective titles "Fusains et eaux-fortes," "Tableaux à la plume," and "Portraits contempo rains." Gavarni (gä-vär-nē'), pseudonym of Sulpice Paul Chevalier. Born at Paris, Jan. 13, 1801: died at Auteuil, Paris, Nov. 23, 1866. A French caricaturist, noted for delineations of Paris i an life, etc.: artist of the "Charivari.” Gavarnie (gä-vär-nē'), Cascade de. A waterfall in the Cirque de Gavarnie, Pyrenees. It is the second highest in Europe (height, 1,385 feet). Gavarnie, Cirque de. A natural amphitheater in the Pyrenees, 14 miles south-southeast of Cauterets. Width, 24 miles. Height, 5,380 feet. Gaveston (gav'es-ton; F. pron. gä-ves-tôn'), Piers. Executed June 19, 1312. The favorite of Edward II. of England. He was the son of a Gascon knight in the service of Edward I., and was brought up in the royal household as the foster-brother Gaurus (gâ'rus), modern Monte Barbaro and playmate of Prince Edward, over whom he acquired (mon'te bär bä-rō). In ancient geography, a mountain in Italy, 7 miles west of Naples. Here, 342 (3437 or 3407) в. с., the Romans under Valerius Corvus defeated the Samnites. Gau (go us), Karl Fried rich. Born at Brunswick, Germany, April 30, 1777: died at Göttingen, Germany, Feb. 23, 1855. A celebrated German mathematician, appointed profe or of mathematics at Göttingen in 1807. His works include "Dis qui sit i ones arithmetice" (1801), "The or i a motus corporum cœlestium" (1809), "Atlas des Erdmag. netismus" (1840), "Dioptrische Untersuchungen" (1843), etc. Gau en (gō-son'), François Samuel Robert Louis. Born at Geneva, Aug. 25, 1790: died at Geneva, June 18, 1863. A Swi Protestant theologian. His chief work is "La Théopneustie" (1840). Gausta (go us'tä). The highest mountain in southern Norway, about lat. 59° 50′ N. Height, 6,180 feet. a complete ascendancy. He incurred the enmity of the barons by his insolent and supercilious bearing, and was banished by Edward I. in 1307, but was recalled on the acce ion of Edward II. in the same year. He was created earl of Cornwall in 1307, and in 1308 acted as regent of the kingdom during the king's absence in France. His conduct, however, so irritated the barons that, in spite of the protection of Edward, he was again forced into exile in 1308-09 and 1311-12. His recall in 1312 provoked a rising of the barons, in the course of which he was captured and executed. Gavroche (gäv-rōsh'). In Victor Hugo's "Les Misérables," a street Arab. He has become a type. Gawain, or Gawayne (gä'wan), Sir. One of the principal knights of the Round Table, in the Arthur i an cycle of romance. He appears first in Geoffrey of Mon mouth as Walwain (Gallicized Gawayne), and then in nearly every one of the romances. He is known as "the courteous. Chrestien of Troyes gives him the first place among the knights. The poem "Sir Gawayne and the Grene Knight," from the French metrical romance of Perceval, is a igned to about the year The Century Cyclopedia of Names Gawain, Sir 1360: it has been republished by the Early English Text Society. There was another knight of this name who served under Amadis of Gaul and achieved great deeds. Geelong 18, 1800: died at Paris, Nov. 29, 1872. A French naturalist. From 1830 to 1842 he was employed by the Chile an government in a detailed topographical and scientific survey of that country. Besides studying and collecting plants, animals, and minerals, he ama ed rich historical material. The results were published in the "Hist or i a fisica y politic a de Chile" (Paris and Santiago, 24 vols. and 2 of atlas, 1843-51), and in a large map of Chile. Gay returned to Paris in 1843. He subsequently traveled in Ru ia and Tatary, and studied the mines of the United States. Gay, Delphine. See Girardin , Madame de . Gay, Ebenezer. Born at Dedham, Ma ., Aug. 26, 1696: died at Hingham, Ma ., March 18, 1787. An American clergyman. He graduated at Harvard in 1714, and in 1718 became pastor at Hingham, Ma achusetts, where he remained until his death. He entertained liberal theological views, and is regarded by some as the father of American Unitarianism. An Gay, John. Born at Barn staple (baptized Sept. 16, 1685): died at London, Dec. 4, 1732. English poet. Among his chief works are "The Fan" and "The Shepherd's Week," a series of eclogues depicting rustic life "with the gilt off" (1714), "The Whatd'ye-call-it," a farce (1715), "Trivia, or the art of Walking the Streets of London" (1716), "Poems" (1720: including "Black-ey'd Susan"), "The Captives," a tragedy (1724), "Fables" (1727), "Acis and Galatea" (1732), and "The Beggar's Opera" (1728). This "New gate pastoral made his great reputation. The representation of "Polly," a se quel, was forbidden by the lord chamberlain. This prohibition became a party question, and the "inoffensive John Gay became one of the obstructions to the peace of Europe." The sale of the book was great. Gay, Joseph. The pseudonym of John Durant Breval. Gay, Madame (Marie Françoise Sophie Nichault de Lavalette). Born at Paris, July 1, 1776: died March, 1852. A French novelist. Her chief novels are "Léonie de Montbreuse" (1813), "Anatole" (1815), "Les malheurs d'un amant heureux ( 1818 ). Gay, Sydney Howard. Born at Hingham, Ma ., May 22, 1814: died at New Brighton, Staten Island, June 25, 1888. An American journalist and author. In 1844 he was editor of the Anti-slavery Standard"; in 1857 he became connected with the New York "Tribune," and from 1862 to 1866 was its managing editor. From 1867 to 1871 he was the manag. ing editor of the Chicago "Tribune," and for two years after that was on the editorial staff of the New York رو