DURRENSTEIN

(dutr’en-stin), a village in Lower Austria, on the Danube, 41 miles west by north of Vienna. Here are the ruins of the castle in which Leopold, Duke of Austria, imprisoned Richard Cceurde Ln on his return from Palestine, DURUY (du-ru-é), Victor, French historian and educationist, born at Paris 1811, died in 1894. His father was a workman in the Gobelins tapestry works, and the boy did not begin his education until he was grown up. He was admitted to the Ecole Normale Supérieure in 1830, graduated in 1833, and was appointed succe ively teacher of history in the Lycée Henri IV, then at the Normal School and the Polytechnic School, inspector of the Academy of Paris, inspector-general of secondary education, and Minister of Public Instruction (1863-9). Works. He is author of Géographie Politique de la République Romaine et de lV Hmpire, Géographie Hist or i que du Moyen Age, His to ire Romaine, His to ire de France, His to ire Grecque, His to ire Populaire Contempo raine, . Some of these are simply school-books, but his His to ire des Romains (translated into English) and his His to ire de la Grece Ancienne (translated into English) are extensive and important works, the former especially.