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south shore of Lake Erie. It is regularly laid out, has a France. He instituted the celebrated catechetical method good harbour, with a fair share of the lake commerce, and is of St Sulpice, and, with Mgr. Darboy, took, a prominent entered by no fewer than five railways, which give it a part in opposing the proclamation of papal infallibility in (j. J. L.*) large inland trade. It is a manufacturing city, and con- 1870. He died on 11th October 1878. tains locomotive works. Population (1880), 7248; (1890), DUppel, a village of Prussia, province of Schleswig9410 • (1900), 11,616, of whom 3338 were foreign-born. Holstein, opposite the little town of Sonderburg (on the Dun more, a borough of Lackawanna county, Penn- island of Alsen), the scene of bloody contests between the sylvania, U. S.-A-., in the anthracite coal region, at an Germans and the Danes. Here in 1848 the former were altitude’of 939 feet. It is on the Erie and Wyoming repelled by the latter. The Danes then constructed strong Valley Railway. The mining and handling of anthracite earthworks at this spot, the key of Alsen, which, however, coal constitute its principal, almost its sole, industry. Popu- were stormed by the Germans in the following year. At lation (1880), 5151 ; (1890), 8315; (1900), 12,583, of the outbreak of the war between Denmark and AustriaPrussia in 1864 the Danes had established themselves in whom 3103 were foreign-born. same position behind a dozen lines of earthworks, but Dun mow, a town in the Epping parliamentary this their were stormed by the Prussians on the 18th division of Essex, England, 12 miles north-west by north April defences of the year named. After being still further of Chelmsford by rail. It ceased to be a corporate town strengthened and linked with similar defences at Sonderin 1886, and the town hall (1578) has been purchased by a burg, the Duppel entrenchments were abandoned in 1881 company. Area of parish, 6795 acres; population (1881), in favour of the project of fortifying Kiel. 3005; (1901), 2704. Dupuy, Charles Alexandre (1851 ), Dunoon, a watering-place and police burgh (1868) of Argyllshire (including Dunoon, Kirn, and Hunter s French statesman, was born at Le Puy, 5th NovemberQuay), on the west shore of the Firth of Clyde, nearly 1851, his father being a local official. After being a opposite Greenock. Recent constructions are a combina- professor of philosophy in the provinces, he was appointed tion hospital, a new pier at Dunoon, and a court house. a school inspector, and thus obtained a practical acquaintAn esplanade has been laid out, and Dunoon Castle and ance with the needs of French education. In 1885 he grounds made into a place of recreation. A statue of was elected to the Chamber as an Opportunist RepubBurns’s “Highland Mary” was erected in 1898. One. of lican. After acting as “ reporter ” of the budget for public the public schools is a grammar school. Population instruction, he became minister for the department, in M. Ribot’s cabinet, in 1892. In April 1893. he formed a (1881), 4692; (1901), 6772. ministry himself, taking as his office that of minister of the Duns, a burgh of barony, police burgh, and railway interior, but resigned at the end of November, and on 5th station of Berwickshire, Scotland, 44 miles east-south-east December was elected president of the Chamber. During of Edinburgh by road. There are a. town hall, county his first week of office an anarchist, Vaillant, who had buildings, a corn exchange, a mechanics’ institute, and a managed to gain admission to the Chamber, threw a bomb public library. Duns has become the virtual county town of at the president, and M. Dupuy’s collected bearing and Berwickshire, and the county buildings are being enlarged conduct on this occasion gained him much credit. In with a view to its being legally constituted as such. May 1894 he again became premier and minister of the Population (1881), 2438; (1901), 2206. interior ; and he was by President Carnot s side when the Dunstable, a municipal borough and market town latter was stabbed to death at Lyons in June. He then in the Luton parliamentary division of Bedfordshire, became a candidate for the presidency, but was defeated, England, 37 miles north by west of London by rail. A and his cabinet remained in office till January 1895; it grammar school has been founded out of the funds of the was under it that Captain Dreyfus was arrested and Ashton charity, and an endowed school built. Extensive condemned (23rd December 1894). The progress of printing works have been established. Area, 453 acres; Vaffaire then cast its shadow upon M. Dupuy, along with population (1881), 4627 ; (1901), 5147. other French “ ministrables,” but in November 1898, after Dupanloup, F6lix Antoine Philibert, M. Brisson had at last remitted the case to the judgment French ecclesiastic (1802-1878), was born in Savoy on of the Cour de Cassation, he formed a cabinet.of Republican 3rd January 1802. In his earliest years he was. confided concentration. In view of the apparent likelihood that to the care of his brother, a priest in the diocese of the judges of the criminal division of the Cour de Cassation Chambery. In 1810 he was sent to a pensionnat —who formed the ordinary tribunal for such an appeal— ecclesiastique at Paris. Thence he went to the seminary of would decide in favour of Dreyfus, it was thought that M. St Nicolas de Chardonnel in 1813, and was transferred to Dupuy’s new cabinet would be strong enough to reconcile the seminary of St Sulpice at Paris in 1820. In 1825 he public opinion to such a result; but, to the surprise of outwas ordained priest. In the same year he became vicar of side observers, it was no sooner discovered how the judges the Madeleine at Paris. He became the founder of the were likely to decide than M. Dupuy proposed a law in the celebrated Academy at St Hyacinthe, and received a letter Chamber transferring the decision to a full court, of all the from Gregory XVI. eulogizing his work there, and. calling divisions of the Cour de Cassation. This arbitrary act, him Apostolus juventutis. His imposing height, his noble though adopted by the Chamber, was at once construed as features, his brilliant eloquence, as well as his renown for a fresh attempt to maintain the judgment of the first zeal and charity, made him a prominent feature in French court-martial; but in the interval President Faure (an life for many years. Crowds of persons attended his anti-Dreyfusard) died, and the accession of M. Loubet addresses, on whom his energy, command of language, doubtless had some effect in quieting public feeling. At powerful voice, and impassioned gestures made a profound all events, the whole Cour de Cassation decided that there impression. When made bishop of Orleans in 1848, he must be a new court-martial, and M. Dupuy at once pronounced a fervid panegyric on Joan of Arc, which resigned (June 1899). attracted attention in England as well as France. Before Du puy de Lome, Stanislas Charles this he had been sent by Archbishop Affre to Rome, Henri Laurent (1816-1885), French naval architect and had been appointed Roman Prelate and Protonotary the son of a retired naval officer was born at Ploemeur, n Apostolic. For thirty years he remained a notable figure in