The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 9); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . y toenter political life; at the election of 14 Oct., 1877, hepresented himself in the first district of Tours as candi-date for the Chamber of Deputies, on the conservativeside, against Belle, the republican deputy who hadfounded in Tours the first lay school for girls. Mamewas defeated, having 7456 votes, against 12,006 ob-tained by Belle. Paul Mame (1833-1903), a son of Alfred, was thehead of the firm until 1900. Meignan, Discours aux funera
The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 9); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . y toenter political life; at the election of 14 Oct., 1877, hepresented himself in the first district of Tours as candi-date for the Chamber of Deputies, on the conservativeside, against Belle, the republican deputy who hadfounded in Tours the first lay school for girls. Mamewas defeated, having 7456 votes, against 12,006 ob-tained by Belle. Paul Mame (1833-1903), a son of Alfred, was thehead of the firm until 1900. Meignan, Discours aux funerailles de M. Alfred Mame (Tours,1893): Quantin, M. Alfred Mame et la Maison Mame (Paris,1883); Paul Mame, 18S3-190S (Toura, 1903). Georges Goyau. Mameluco (from the Arabic, memluk, slave, thehousehold cavalry of the former sultans of Egypt, re-cruited chiefly from the children of Christian slaves),the general term applied in South America to designatethe mixed European-Indian race, and more specifi-cally applied in the seventeenth and eighteenth cen-turies to the organized bands of Portuguese slave-hunters who desolated the vast interior of South. MAMERTINE 579 MAMERTINE America from the Atlantic to the slopes of the Andes,and from the Paraguay to the Orinoco. The enslave-ment of the Indians by the conquerors began almostwith the discovery of America, being recommendedand put in practice by Columbus himself as early as1493, occasioning his first serious rebuke by 1511 the Dominicans throughout Hispaniola (Haiti)publicly preached against it, and sent one of theirnumber to Spain to protest against it at court; theiractions resulted in a royal edict against the abuse, andthe official appointment of the celebrated Dominicanfather, and later bishop, Bartolome de Las Casas, asProtector of the Indians. In 1531 Paul III issueda Bull restoring liberty to all enslaved Indians. In1543, largely through the effort of Las Casas, theSpanish Government published a code of new laws f
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