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MELUN , a See also:town of See also:northern See also:France, See also:capital of the See also:department of See also:Seine-et-See also:Marne, situated See also:north of the See also:forest of See also:Fontainebleau, 28 in. S.S.E. of See also:Paris by See also:rail. Pop. (1906), 11,219. The town is divided into three parts by the Seine. The See also:principal portion lies on the slope of a See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill on the right See also:bank; on the See also:left bank is the most See also:modern See also:quarter, while the old See also:Roman town occupies a.n See also:island in the See also:river. On the island stands the Romanesque See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of Notre-See also:Dame (11th and 12th centuries), formerly See also:part of a nunnery, the site of which is occupied by a See also:prison. The other public buildings are on the right bank of the river. Of these, the most striking is the church of St Aspais, an irregularly shaped structure of the 15th and ,6th centuries, on the See also:apse of which may be seen a modern medallion in See also:bronze, the See also:work of the sculptor H. See also:Chapu, representing See also:Joan of Arc as the liberator of Melun. The hotel-de-ville (1847)—in the construction of which an old See also:mansion and See also:turret have been utilized—and the See also:tower of St See also:Bartholomew of the 16th and ,8th centuries are also of See also:interest. In the courtyard of the former there is a See also:monument to Jacques See also:Amyot, the translator of See also:Plutarch, who was See also:born at Melun in 1513. Among the See also:rich estates in the neighbourhood the most remarkable is the magnificent See also:chateau of See also:Vaux-le-Vicomte, which belonged to See also:Nicholas See also:Fouquet, See also:intendant of finances under See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XIV. Melun is a See also:market for See also:grain and See also:farm produce, and its See also:industries include See also:brewing, tanning, distilling, sawing and the manufacture of agricultural implements, clogs, See also:fur garments, See also:lime, See also:cement and See also:plaster.
In See also:Caesar's Gallic See also:wars Melun (Melodunum) was taken by his See also:lieutenant See also:Labienus, in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to facilitate the attack of Lutetia by the right bank of the Seine. It was pillaged by the See also:Normans, and afterwards became the favourite See also:residence of the first See also:kings of the See also:race of See also:Capet ; See also:Robert and See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip I. both died here. In 1359 Melun was given up by Jeanne of See also:Navarre to her See also:brother, See also:Charles the See also:Bad, but was retaken by the dauphin Charles and See also:Bertrand Duguesclin. In 1420 it made an heroic See also:defence against See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry V. of See also:England and his ally the See also:duke of See also:Burgundy. Ten years later the See also:people of Melun, with the help of Joan of Arc, drove out the See also:English. It was occupied by the See also:League in 1589, and retaken by Henry IV. in the following See also:year.
M$LUSINE, the tutelary See also:fairy of the See also:house of See also:Lusignan, was the eldest daughter of the fairy Pressine, to avenge whose wrongs she shut up her See also:father in a See also:mountain in See also:Northumberland. For this she was condemned to be metamorphosed every Saturday into a woman-See also:serpent—that is, to be a serpent from the hips downwards. She might, however, be eventually saved from this See also:punishment if she could find a See also:husband who would never see her on a Saturday. Such a husband was found in See also:Raymond, See also:nephew of the See also:count of See also:Poitiers, who became rich and powerful through the machinations of his wife. She built the See also:castle of Lusignan and many other of the See also:family fortresses. When at length her husband gave way to his curiosity, and saw her taking the See also:bath of See also:purification on a Saturday she flew from the castle in the See also:form of a serpent. Thenceforward the See also:death of a member of the house of Lusignan was heralded by the cries of the fairy serpent. " Pousser See also:des Cris de Melusine " is still a popular saying.
This See also:history is related at length, with the adventures ofMelusine's numerous progeny, by See also:Jean d'See also:Arras, in his Chronique de la princesse, written in 1387 at the See also:desire of See also:John, duke of See also:Berry, for the amusement of the duke and of his See also:sister See also:Marie of France, duchess of See also:Bar. It is one of the most charming of the old See also:prose romances in manner and See also:style, and is natural in spite of the See also:free use of the marvellous. An See also:attempt has been made by Jules Baudot in See also:Les Princesses See also:Yolande et les discs de Bar i Paris, 1900) to make it a roman d de and to identify the personages. Melusine, Mellusine or Merlusine is, however, simply the spirit of the See also:fountain of Lusignan, and the See also:local Poitevin myth is attached to the origin of the See also:noble house. The See also:etymology of the word has been variously and fancifully given. Some writers have supposed Merlusine to be a corruption of See also:mere Lucine (mater See also:Lucina), the deity invoked in See also:child-See also:birth. She has been identified with Melisende, widow of a See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Jerusalem, and with Mervant, wife of Geoffroi de Lusignan.
The Melusine of Jean d'Arras was printed by See also:Adam Steinschaber at See also:Geneva in 1478, and was reprinted many times in the 15th and 16th centuries. It has been translated into See also:Spanish, English, See also:German and Flemish. Modern See also:editions are by J. C. See also:Brunet (Paris, 1854), and by E. Lecesne for the See also:Academy of Arras (Arras, 1888). The English See also:translation was edited from a unique MS. in the See also:British Museum by A. K. Donald for the E.E.T.S. (1895). The See also:tale was versified in the 14th See also:century by a poet called Couldrette, whose poem was published in 1854 by Francisque See also:Michel. See further J. C. See also:Dunlop, Hist. of Fiction, H. 491-493 (new ed., 1888); S. See also:Baring-See also:Gould, Curious Myths of the See also:Middle Ages, pp. 47o seq. (new ed., 1881) ; and J. C. Brunet, See also:Manuel du libraire (vol. iii., 1862, s.v. Jean d'Arras).
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