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A French nun of a mystic tendency, the founder of the devotion of the Sacred Heart (1647-1690).
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A French Protestant theologian and a mathematician, a friend of Newton, and much esteemed for his learning by Rousseau and Voltaire (1679-1767).
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A French river which, after a course of 150 m., falls into the Oise near Compiègne; also a department in the N. of France.
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A French river, has its source in the Jura Mts., and falls into the Rhône; also a department of France between the Rhône and Savoy.
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A general of the armies of Charles V. and Philip of Spain; his career as a general was uniformly successful, but as a governor his cruelty was merciless, especially as the viceroy of Philip in the Low Countries, "very busy cutting off high heads in Brabant, and stirring up the Dutch to such fury as was needful for exploding Spain and him" (1508-1582).
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A genus of fossil shells curved into a spiral form like the ram-horn on the head of the image of Ammon.
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A genus of limbless lizards; a serpent fabled to have two heads and to be able to move backward or forward.
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A genus of plants, such as the cardamom and grains of paradise, remarkable for their pungency and aromatic properties.
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