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 full of force and grandeur. She remonstrated upon the enormity of taking advantage of an absence caused by such a motive; and demanded that things should at least be left in the same situation till the return of her son. By this firmness she obtained her point. Philip returned in 1192, and history takes no other notice of Alice afterwards, than to mention some religious houses which she founded. She died at Paris, in 1205.

ALICE, France, second daughter of Louis the Seventh of France, and of Alice of Champagne, was betrothed, at the age of fourteen, to Richard Cœur de Lion, second son of Henry the Second, of England. She was taken to that country to learn the language, where her beauty made such an impression that Henry the Second, though an old man, became one of her admirers. He placed her in the castle of Woodstock, where his mistress, the celebrated Rosamond Clifford, had been murdered, as was then reported, by his jealous wife, Eleanor of Guienne. Alice is said to have taken the place of Rosamond; at any rate, Henry's conduct to her so irritated Richard, that, incited by his mother, he took up arms against his father. Henry's death, in 1189, put an end to this unhappy position of affairs; but when Richard was urged by Philip Augustus of France to fulfil his engagement to his sister Alice, Richard refused, alleging that she had had a daughter by his father. The subsequent marriage of Richard with Berengaria of Navarre, so enraged Philip Augustus, that from that time he became the relentless enemy of the English king. Alice returned to France, and in 1195 she married William the Third, count of Ponthieu. She was the victim of the licentious passions of the English monarch. Had she been as happily married as her mother, she would, probable, have showed as amiable a disposition, and a mind of like excellence.

ALLIN, ABBY, Is an American lady, whose poems have appeared in several periodicals with the signature "Nilla," her own name reversed, during several years past. In 1850, her prose and poetical contributions to the Boston Journal were published. "Home Ballads, a book for New Englanders," is the title of the work, which well describes its spirit and sentiment. "The writings of Miss Allin," says a contemporary biographer, "are filled with warm sympathies for the working world; she has a cheerful, hopeful philosophy, and loves home, children, and friends. The expression of these feelings makes her ballads popular."

ALLISH, , who flourished in the beginning of the eighteenth century. She was a German or Pole by birth, the daughter of Rabbi Mordecai, called "Magister Sluskiensis," .which means probably chief Rabbi of Slutzk in Lithuania. She translated from Hebrew into German the book called "Shomerim Labboker," the Watches for Morning, a collection of prayers and supplications recited by the pious German Jews every morning. This translation was made in 1704, during a journey to the Holy Land, in company with her husband, R. Aaron ben R. Alikum Getz. It was first printed at Frankfort, on the Oder, with the Hebrew text, in 1704, and has since been frequently reprinted.