Born at Perigueux, 7 June, 1686; died at Quebec, 17 March, 1758. He entered the Society of Jesus at Bordeaux, 4 Oct., 1703, and in 1725 was sent to the Canada mission.

The city of La Plata, capital of the Argentine Province of Buenos Aires, is situated on the right bank of the Rio de la Plata, about 35 miles south-east of the city of Buenos Aires.

The metropolitan see of Bolivia.

Diocese in Bolivia.

French general and commander-in-chief of the papal army, b. at Nantes, 5 February, 1806; d. at the château of Prouzel, near Amiens, 11 September, 1865.

French cardinal b. at Paris, 1738; d. there, l821.

Mathematician, astronomer, physicist, naturalist, and painter, b. in Paris, 18 March, 1640; d. in Paris, 21 April, 1718.

Franciscan Biblical scholar, b. at Paris, 20 March, 1593; d. there 15 Oct., 1661.

A French critic and poet, b. at Paris, 20 November, 1739; d. February, 1803.

Painter, b. in Paris, 15 June, 1636; d. in Paris, 13 December, 1716, and buried in the church of Saint Eustache.

French poet, b. at Chateau-Thierry, 8 July, 1621; d. at Paris, 13 April, 1695.

Author of memoirs and novels, born in Paris, 1634; died there, 1693.

Diocese erected in 1868; included that part of the State of Wisconsin, U.S.A., lying north and west of the Wisconsin River.

Confessor of King Louis XIV, born at the mansion of Aix, in Forez, Department of Loire, 25 August, 1624; died at Paris, 20 January, 1709.

Born at Paris in 1645; died at Chantilly in 1696. He was the son of a comptroller general of municipal revenue.

Born at Aigueperse, about 1504; d. at Courdimanche, 13 March, 1573. While very young he went to Italy to join his father, who had been a follower of the traitor, the Constable of Bourbon, in the camp of Charles V.

French engineer. (1755-1833)