Fon tenailles (font-näy'), or Fontenay

A vilalteration of the "Trip to Calais"). He also wrote a num. lage in the department of Yonne, France, near Auxerre: the ancient Fontanetum. Here, in 841, Charles the Bald and Louis the German defeated the em per or Lothaire. Fontenay-le-Comte (font-nā'lė-kont'). Atown in the department of Vendée, France, 27 miles northeast of La Rochelle. It suffered in the Hu guenot and Vendean wars. Population (1891), commune, 9,864. Fontenelle (font-nel'), Bernard le Bovier de. Born at Rouen, France, Feb. 11, 1657: died at Paris, Jan. 9, 1757. A French advocate, philosopher, poet, and miscellaneous writer. He was the nephew (through his mother) of Corneille, and was "one of the last of the Précieux , or rather the inventor of a new combination of literature and gallantry which at first exposed him to not a little satire" ( Saints bury ). He wrote "Poésies pastorales” (1688), “Dialogues des morts" (1683), "Entretiens sur la plural ité des mondes" (1686), "His to ire des oracles" (1687), "Éloges des académiciens (delivered 1699-1740). Fontenoy (font-nwä'). A village in the province of Hainaut, Belgium, 5 miles southeast of Tournai. Here, May 11, 1745, the French (about 70,000) under Marshal Saxe defeated the allied English, Dutch, Han over i ans, and Austrians (about 50,000) under the Duke of Cumber land. The lo on both sides was very great. Fontevrault(fôn-tē-vrō′). A place in the department of Maine-et-Loire, France, 9 miles south The abbey church, consecrated in east of Saumur. 1119, is an important example of the domical church. In the south transept are fine tombs, with portrait-effigies, of the first Plantage net sovereigns of England. Font hill (font'hil) Abbey. A magnificent residence built on Lansdowne Hill, near Bath, England, by Beckford, the author of "Vathek." Its marked peculiarity was a tower 280 feet high. During the progre of the building the tower caught fire, and was partly destroyed. The owner, however, was present, and enjoyed the magnificent burning spectacle. ber of witty prose tracts, etc. From his scathing wit he was known as "the English Aris toph anes." Foote, Samuel August us. Born at Cheshire, Conn., Nov. 8, 1780: died there, Sept., 1846. An American politician. He was United States senator from Connecticut 1827-33, and governor of Connecticut in 1834. He introduced "Foote's Resolution" (which see) 1829. Foote's Resolution. A resolution introduced into the United States Senate by S. A. Foote, Dec. 29, 1829. It instructed the committee on public lands to inquire into the expediency of limiting the sale of public lands for a certain period to those which had al ready been offered for sale. It occasioned the famous debate in the Senate between Webster and Hayne in Jan., 1830. Fopling Flutter, Sir. See Flutter , Sir Fopling . Foppa (fop'pä), Vincenzo. Born at Brescia, Italy, at the beginning of the 15th century: died at Brescia, 1492. An Italian painter. Fopping ton (fop'ing-ton), Lord. In Vanbrugh's comedy "The Relapse," a foolish fine gentleman, a further development of Colley Cibber's Sir Novelty Fashion in "Love's Last Shift." He also appears (as Lord Fopping ton) in Cibber's "Carele Husband," and in Sheridan's "Trip to Scar borough," an alteration of "The Relapse." Lord Fopping ton, in the "Relapse," is a most splendid caricature: he is a personification of the foppery and folly of dre and external appearance in full feather. He blazes out and dazzles sober reason with ridiculous ostentation. Still I think this character is a copy from Etherege's Sir Fopling Flutter; and upon the whole, perhaps, Sir Fopling is the more natural grotesque of the two.