The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . thfounded upon personal observations during a visitto this country, in company with M. de Tocque-ville, in 1831; and Ireland, Political, Social andReligious (1839). BEAUNE, Florimond de, an eminent Frenchmathematician; born at Blois in 1601 ; died in hisnative town in 1652. He was a friend of Des-cartes, whose work he much improved, and is regarded by many as the proper founder of theintegral calculus. Two volumes on the Limits ofEtjuations ? his only known works. BEAUPORT, a town of Canada, on the left
The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . thfounded upon personal observations during a visitto this country, in company with M. de Tocque-ville, in 1831; and Ireland, Political, Social andReligious (1839). BEAUNE, Florimond de, an eminent Frenchmathematician; born at Blois in 1601 ; died in hisnative town in 1652. He was a friend of Des-cartes, whose work he much improved, and is regarded by many as the proper founder of theintegral calculus. Two volumes on the Limits ofEtjuations ? his only known works. BEAUPORT, a town of Canada, on the left hankof the St. Lawrence River, 3^ miles below Que-bec. It contains manufactories of lumber, nails,flour, chemical products and agricultural inijile-ments. The lunatic asylum here located is theoldest in the province, having been established in1845. Population iSgr, 4,800. BEAURAIN, Jean de, a French engineer andgeographer; born at Aix-en-Essart in 1696; diedin 1771 ; studied under Pierre Moulard-Sanson, andwas made Geographer to the King. He pub- 400 BEAUREGARD — BEAVER ISLANDS. GENERAL BEAUREGARD. lished a Topographic Description of Flanders; or,Campaigns of Marshal Luxembourg (1756); also, anAtlas of Ancient and Modern Geography (14 vols.,fol.) His son,bearing his name, was also an engineerand geographer, and published Maps for the His-tory of the Campaign of Prince ComU in Flanders;and Maps for the History of the Four Last Cam-paigns of Marshal Turenne. BEAUREGARD, Pierre Gustave ToutantDE, Confederate soldier; born near New Orleans, Louisiana, of an aristo-cratic Louisiana familyof Canadian French ori-gin, May 28, 1818; grad-uated at West Point in1838; second in a classwhich included the fu-ture Union generals,Irvin McDowell andWilliam F. Barry; en-tered the army as secondlieutenant of engineersand served through theMexican War with highdistinction, becoming acaptain and brevet major in 1847; rose to besuperintendent of the United States Military Acad-emy, with the rank
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