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 CLAYTON-LE- MOORS—CLEMENCEAU to the end of an unusually long and laborious career, revolution of 1870 he had become sufficiently well known attracted those minds which aspired to be bold, and won to be nominated mayor of the 18th arrondissement of Paris over those which were moderate. Clays soon took his (Montmartre)—an unruly district over which it was a diffiplace among the most famous Belgian painters of his cult task to preside. In February 1871 he was elected generation, and his pictures, sold at high prices, are to be as a Radical to the National Assembly for the department seen in most public and private galleries. We may of the Seine, and voted against the peace preliminaries. mention, among others, 11 The Beach at Ault, ‘ Boats in The execution, or rather murder, of Generals Lecomte a Dutch Port,” and “ Dutch Boats in the Flushing Beads,” and Clement Thomas by the communists on 18th March, the last-named in the National Gallery of London. In the which he vainly tried to prevent, brought him into collision Brussels Gallery are “ The Port of Antwerp,” “ Coast near with the Central Committee sitting at the Hotel de Vide, Ostend,” and a “ Calm on the Scheldt ” ; in the Antwerp and they ordered his arrest, but he escaped; he was Museum, u The Meuse at Dordrecht” j in the Pinakothek at accused, however, by various witnesses, at the subsequent Munich, “The Open North Sea”; in the New York Gallery, trial of the murderers (29th November), of not having inter“ The Festival of the Freedom of the Scheldt at Antwerp vened when he might have done, and though he was cleared in 1863”; in the palace of the king of the Belgians, of this charge it led to a duel, for his share in which he “Arrival of Queen Victoria at Ostend in 1857”; in the was prosecuted and sentenced to a fine and a fortnight’s Bruges Academy, “Port of Feirugudo, Portugal.” P. J. imprisonment. Meanwhile, on 20th March 1871, he had Clays was a member of several Academies, Belgian and introduced in the National Assembly at Versailles, on foreign, and of the Order of Leopold, the Legion of behalf of his Radical colleagues, the bill establishing a Paris Municipal Council of eighty members; but he was not Honour, &c. returned at the elections of 26th March. He tried See Camille Lemonnieii. Histoire des Beaux Arts. Brussels. with the himself other Paris mayors to mediate between Versailles 1887. (o. M*.) and the Hotel de Ville, but failed, and accordingly resigned Glayton-le-MOOTS, a township and parish of his mayoralty and his seat in the Assembly, and temporarily Lancashire, England, 2 miles north-north-west of Accring- gave up politics ; but he was elected to the Paris Municipal ton by rail, in the Accrington parliamentary division. In Council on 23rd July 1871 for the Clignancourt quartier, 1894 the parish was placed under an urban district council and retained his seat till 1876, passing through the offices of twelve members. Besides the church of All Saints, restored of secretary and vice-president, and becoming president in in 1882, the parish has a Koman Catholic church (1819), 1875. In 1876 he stood again for the Chamber of a Primitive Methodist (1858), a Wesleyan (1862), and a Deputies, and was elected for the 18th arrondissement. Baptist -(1882) chapel; there are also five schools, one of He joined the Extreme Left, and his energy and mordant them Koman Catholic. Other buildings are the district eloquence speedily made him the leader of the Radical council offices, a mechanics’ institute, and a fire-station. section. In 1877, after the Seize Mai (see France, The industries comprise cotton mills, calico printing, History), he was one of the republican majority who engineering, soap, brick, and tile works. Area of urban denounced the Broglie ministry, and he took a leading district, 1059 acres; population (1881), 6695 ; (1901), part in resisting the anti-republican policy of which the 8153. Seize Mai incident was a symptom, his demand in 1879 Clearfield, capital of Clearfield county, Penn- for the indictment of the Broglie ministry bringing him sylvania, U.S.A., on the western branch of the Susquehanna into particular prominence. In 1880 he started his newsriver, and on the Pennsylvania, the Beech Creek, and the paper, La Justice, which became the principal organ of Buffalo, Kochester, and Pittsburg Kailways. Population Parisian Radicalism; and from this time onwards throughout M. Grevy’s presidency his reputation as a political (1890), 2248; (1900), 5081. critic, and as a destroyer of ministries who yet would not Cleator Moor, a town in the Egremont parlia- take office himself, rapidly grew. He was an active mentary division of Cumberland, England, 2|- miles north opponent of M. Jules Ferry’s colonial policy and of the of Egremont by rail. There are public offices, a market hall, Opportunist party, and in 1885 it was his use of the and a free library. The staple industry is the working of Tongking disaster which principally determined the fall of coal mines and of iron-ore mines, in connexion with which the Ferry Cabinet. At the elections of 1885 he advocated there are four blast furnaces. Area of urban district, 2947 a strong Radical programme, and was returned both for his old seat in Paris and for the Var, selecting the latter. acres; population (1881), 10,420; (1901), 8121. Refusing to form or enter a ministry, he supported the Cleburne, capital town of Johnson county, Texas, Right in keeping M. Freycinet in power in 1886, and was U.S.A., 25 miles south of Fort Worth, at the intersection responsible for the inclusion of General Boulanger in the of two branches of the Gulf, Colorado, and Santa Fe Kail- Freycinet Cabinet as war minister. Boulanger, depending way. Population (1890), 3278; (1900), 7493. on the Radicals, and supported by them, inaugurated his Cleckheaton, a township and parish in the Spen career by measures congenial to them, but when he began Valley parliamentary division of the West Riding of York- to assert himself and to take advantage of Grevy’s unpoputo pose as a Pretender, with the help of some of the shire, England, 12 miles by rail south-west of Leeds. larity There are a town hall, a hospital for infectious diseases, Extreme Left and of the Royalists, Clemenceau withdrew own support and became a vigorous combatant against a mechanics’ institute, and a technical school. A chamber his the Boulangist movement, though the Radical press and a of commerce has held meetings here since 1878. The in- section of the party continued to patronize the general. By dustries comprise the manufacture of woollens, blankets, exposure of the Wilson scandal, and by his personal flannel wire-card, and machinery. Area of urban district, his plain-speaking, M. Clemenceau contributed largely to M. 1755 acres; population (1881), 10,653; (1901), 12,523. Grevy’s resignation of the presidency in 1887, having himCl€menceau, Georges (1841 ), French self declined Grevy’s request to form a Cabinet on the downpolitician, was born at Mouilleron-en-Pareds, La Vendee, fall of that of M. Rouvier; and he was primarily responsible, 28th September 1841. Having adopted medicine as his by‘advising his followers to vote neither for Floquet, Ferry, profession, for which he had been educated at Nantes and nor Freycinet, for the election of an “ outsider ” as presiParis, he settled in 1869 in Montmartre; and after the dent in M. Carnot. He had arrived, however, at the height 108