Louis Hector Callieres Bomevue

Louis Hector Callieres Bomevue, chevalier de, governor of Canada, born in France, in 1639, died in Quebec, May 26, 1703. He entered the army early in life, and in 1664 rose to a captaincy in the regiment of Navarre. He was governor of Montreal in 1684, and three years after led the van' of Denonville's army which invaded the Seneca country in western New York. Seeing the impossibility of holding Canada without the possession of New York, he laid a plan for its reduction before his government, and went to France to urge it. His administration at Montreal showed such judgment, capacity, and bravery that he was appointed governor general of Canada in 1699. He maintained the ascendancy acquired by Frontenac, founded Detroit, secured the western tribes, checked the Iroquois, and supported the Abenaquis. He was seized with a fatal illness while attending mass.

Louis Hersent

Louis Hersent, a French painter, born in Paris, March 10, 1777, died there, Oct. 2, 1860. He studied under Regnault, and at the age of 20 gained the second prize at the school of fine arts. He was one of the painters to the government, and received an honorary decoration from Louis XVIII., who bought his "Ruth and Boaz" and "Monks of St. Bernard." His "Abdication of Gustavus Vasa," considered his best work, was destroyed in the sacking of the Palais Royal in 1848. His "Louis XVI. giving Alms to the People," now in the museum at Versailles, was among his later works. Almost all his pictures have been engraved.

Louis Hippolyte Le Bas

Louis Hippolyte Le Bas, a French architect, born in Paris in 1782, died there in 1867. He became architect of public works, member of the institute, and professor at the school of fine arts, and executed many remarkable works, including the church of Notre Dame de Lorette.

Louis Jacques Thenard

Louis Jacques Thenard, baron, a French chemist, born at La Louptiere, Champagne, May 4, 1777, died in Paris, June 21,1857. He studied chemistry in Paris under Vauquelin and Four-croy, in 1798 became a teacher of that science in the polytechnic school, in 1804 professor in the college de France and the Sorbonne as successor of Vauquelin, and in 1810 also in the polytechnic school. In the latter year he was elected a member of the academy in place of Four-croy. Charles X. on his accession to the throne made him a baron, and under Louis Philippe he was created a peer in 1832, and in 1838 director of the college de France. He was president of the society for the encouragement of national industry, and founded a society for the benefit of inventors impoverished by useful researches. His most popular work, Traite elementaire de chimie theorique et pratique (4 vols. 8vo, 1813-'16; 7th ed., 5 vols., 183G), has been translated into several languages.

Louis Joseph Ferdinand Herold

Louis Joseph Ferdinand Herold, a French composer, born in Paris, Jan. 28, 1701, died at Ternes, near Paris, Jan. 18, 1833. He studied with Mehul, Adam, and Cherubini, and having procured the means for travel by a successful competition for the prizes of the conservatory, passed five years in Italy. On his return to Paris in 1817 he wrote a number of works for the Opera Comique, which were successful in their day, but are now mostly forgotten. Zampa, produced in 1831, placed him in the first rank of French composers. Incessant labor undermined his health, and after the production of the Pre aux Cleres and La medicine sans mede-cin, which were received with great favor, he died in the zenith of his fame. His later works are frequently performed, especially Zampa.