Chambers's encyclopædia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . Conde, he was set at liberty in 1652, and joined,with Conde, the enemies of the court and ofMazarin at Bordeaux. Two months later, he hadbetrayed his allies, and was at Paris with the king,but misfortune still followed him, and he foundthat his mistress, for whom he had endured so much,was false, and that with his own esquire. Findinghimself an object of ridicide at Paris, he attemptedto return to Naples, but failed ; returned to Paris,was made grand chamberlain, there directed themagniliceut fetes of Louis XIV., and died withoutch
Chambers's encyclopædia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . Conde, he was set at liberty in 1652, and joined,with Conde, the enemies of the court and ofMazarin at Bordeaux. Two months later, he hadbetrayed his allies, and was at Paris with the king,but misfortune still followed him, and he foundthat his mistress, for whom he had endured so much,was false, and that with his own esquire. Findinghimself an object of ridicide at Paris, he attemptedto return to Naples, but failed ; returned to Paris,was made grand chamberlain, there directed themagniliceut fetes of Louis XIV., and died withoutchildren m 1664. GUITAK, a musical stringed instrument, some-what like the lute, particularly well adapted foraccompanying the human voice, and much esteemedin Spain and Italj. It has six strings, timed asfollows : ^ =5= and the sound is produced by the fingers of theright hand twitching the strings, while the fingersof the left hand make the notes of the music onthe tinger-board, which has frets across it likethe lyic. The three highest strings of the guitar. Guitar. are always of gnit, and the three lowest are of silkspim over with silvered wire. The greatest virtuosion the guitar were Guiliani, Sor, Zoechi, Stoll, andHoretzsk3^ GUIZOT, FRAN901S Pierre Guillaume, a Frenchstatesman aud historian, was born at Nimes, October4, 1787- His parents were Protestants ; his father,who was an advocate, perished on the scaffold,April 8, 1794, and his mother soon afterwards went,with her two sons, to Geneva, where G. received hiseducation. In 1805, he went to Paris, and devotedhimself to literature. His first work, the NouveauDictionnaire Univcrsel des Si/nonymes de la LangueFraiifcdse (2 vols.; 4th ed. Paris 1848), appeared inIS09; the introduction reveals a very methodicalmind. The next seven years were spent in laboriousliterary actiyitj^ After the second Ilestoratiou,he became general secretary to the Ministry ofthe Interior, afterwards to the Ministry of the retirement of B
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