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work, however, and the one by which he is best known, is liis "Ilistoria general de Espafia", which he pub- lished in .Madrid (IS5U-iM)'J, 30 vols.). A second edi- tion (13 vols.) was pviblished in 1S74-1S75. Among his other works may be mentioned his "Teatro social del siglo XIX" (1S46), dealing with the manners and customs of the day; " Viaje aerostiitico del Fray Ge- rundio y Tirabeque". The latter is divided into two parts, the first being a review of aerial navigation, and the second, a satire on the political situation in Eu- rope. The important events of 1.S4S caused him to write his "Revista Europea" which he published as a periodical for about one year. His works are all written in an easy, flowing, popular style.

Ferrer i>el Rio in Lafiiente y Z.\.m.\llua, Ilisturia general dc Espana (.Madrid, 1874-75).

Ventuba Fuentes.

Lagania, a titular sec in Galatia Prima. The town is iiicniidncd liy Ptolemy, V, i, 14, and in several an- cient gcMigraphical documents, often with an altered name and with no historical information. It received the name of AnastasiopoHs in the reign of Emperor Anastasius I (491-518), and is very probably to be identified with the actual Bey-Bazar, chief town of a caza of the vilayet of Angora, with 2500 Mussulman inhabitants. Lagania, or Anastasiopolis, had an epis- copal see, suffragan of Ancyra, and mentioned by flic " Xotitiae Episcopatuum" up to the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Lequien (Oriens Christ., I, 4S.5-8S) wrongly took these names as indicating two distinct sees, and his list of bishops is very incorrect. It must be revised as follows: Euphrasius, who at- tended the Council of Nicaea, 325; Theodosius, end of the sixth century; Timothy, his successor; St. Theo- dore the Syceote, d. 22 April, 613; Genesius, present at the Councils of Constantinople, 680 and 692; Thc- ophilus, at Nica!a, 787; Marianus, at Constantinople, 879.

Ramsay, Historical Geography of Asia Minor (London, 1890), 240; Perrot, Exploration archrologirjue dr la Galatie (Paris, 1872). 217-19; Baudrillart. Dictionnaire' d'histoire et de geographie eccles., s. v. Anastaiiiopotis.

S. Petrides.

Lagrene, Pierre, a missionary in New France, b. at Paris, 12 Nov. (al. 28 Oct.), 1659; d. at Quebec in 1736. He entered the Society at Paris, 10 Oct. (al. 2 Oct.), 1677. studied philosophy at La Fleche (1679- 81), and after teaching sometime, was ordained priest, and in 1694 was sent to the Canada mission. After a short stay at Lorette, spent in the study of the Huron language, he was stationed (1697-1701) at Sault St. Louis with the Iroquois, then returned to Lorette for a year. In 1704 he was back at Sault St. Louis, where he remained until transferred to Montreal in 1707, of which residence he was named superior in 1716. This position he still occupied in 1720. During the last eleven years of his stay in Montreal, Ijesides his spirit- ual ministrations to the transient bands of Indians, and the ordinary ministry of the Church, he was direc- tor of the .Montreal Congregation des Hommes, then in its infancy. Thissodalitv, atTiliated to the Roman, 3 May, 1693, by the (leneral of the Society of Jesus, under the title of the .Assiniiption of ur Lady, passed into the hands of the priests of St-Sulpice, when the last Jesuit at Montreal, Father Bernard Well, died in 1791. To Father Lagrene it owes in great part its ad- mirable organization, which has enabled it to resist to the present the test of time. On 10 .August, 1710, La- grend had the satisfaction of seeing the completion of the .sodality chapel, commenced 24 May, 1709, and in taking part inthe ceremony of its blessing with the then local superior, Father Francois- Vaillant de Gueslis. It was Jose]3h-Sere de La Colombiere, l.irother of the ilistinguished Jesuit. Claude, who, as vicar-general of the Bishop of Queliec, presided and blessed the chapel. In 1723 Father Lagrene was transferred to Quebec

College, there to be prefect of schools. He filled this position until 1735, but other responsibilities were added. Minister in 1724-25, he became director of the sodality in 1730. In 1735 his increasing infirmi- ties incapacitated him for further work. He died at the College of Quebec the following year.

Docs, in ,S7. Mary's College Archives, Montreal; Extracts from the MSS. Catalogues of tlie Society; de Rochemontei.x, Lea Jesuites el La Nouvelle France, III (Paris, 1S95), 384.

Arthur Edward Jones.

La Harpe, jEAN-FRANfois, a French critic and poet, b. at Paris, 20 November, 1739; d. February, 1803. He was ten years old when his father, a Swiss nobleman in the service of France, died. He was cared for by Sisters of Charity and then sent as a free scholar to the College d'Harcourt. He began his literary career by some satirical couplets, on account of which he was imprisoned at Fort-l'Eveque. At the age of twenty he published "Heroides", preceded by "Essai sur I'h^roide", and followed by a second vol- ume, "Heroides et Poesies fugitives" (Paris, 1762). In the following year, his tragedy "Warwick" met with a tremendous success. He then became inti- mately acquainted with Voltaire, whose "son" he professed to be, and whom he imitated so closely that he was nicknamed ' ' the monkey of Voltaire ". A few other tragedies — "Timoleon" (1764), "Pharamond" (1765), and "Gustave Wasa" (1766) — were a com- plete failure. In 1768 he entered the "Mercure" then a famous magazine, and contributed some re- markable articles. His drama, "Melanie ou la re- ligeuse" (1770), a violent attack upon the religious vows, the representation of which was forbidden by the censors, was enthusiastically received by the pub- lic and widely read, although it is the most tedious book that has ever been written. Three years in suc- cession he won the prize in the competition instituted by the French Academy, with his " Eloge de Henri IV " (i770), "Eloge de F^nelon" (1771), and "Eloge de Racine" (1772) respectively. In 1776 he was elected to the Academy. He then once more attempted to work for the stage and force the admiration of the public, but failed anew. His tragedies, "Mcnzicoff" (1776), "Les Barmecides" (1778), "Jeanne de Na- ples" (1781), "Les Brames" (1783), "Coriolan" (1784), and "Virginie" (1786), were received worse than coolly. " Philoctete" alone (1783) won some ap- plause. In 1787 he was made professor of literature in the Lycde, a school recently established in Paris by Pilatre du Rozicr. The lectures he gave in that in- stitution were published in eighteen volumes (Paris, 1799-1805) under the title of "Lycee, ou Cours de littcrature". This work, although containing excel- lent chapters, is now antiquated. When the French Revolution broke out, he welcomed it with enthu- siasm until he was sent to prLson (1794). Once set free, he renounced his former ideas and became a zeal- ous Catholic. His last works bear the stamp of his new-found faith. Among them may be mentioned: " De la guerre declaree par nos derniers tyrans a la Raison, a. la Morale, aux Lettres et aux Arts" (Paris, 1796); an epic in six books, " Lc Triomphe de la Re- ligion, ou le Roi Martyr", published after his death; "La prophetic de Cazotte", which was regarded by Sainte-Beuve as a masterpiece.

Peignot, Recherches historiques, bihliographiquea et littcrairea sur la vie et les ouvrages de La Harpe (Paris, 1820); .Sainte- Beuve, Causeries du Lundi, V; Petit de Julleville, Histoire de la langue et de la littcrature fran^aiscs, VI (Paris, 1894).

Louis N. Del.vmarre.

La Haye, Jean de, .Jesuit Biblical scholar, b. at Baulfe, Hainault, 26 Sept., 1.540; d. at Douai, 14 Jan., 1614. The Jesuit catalogue of admission makes Douai his birthplace. The Belgian poet-historian, Philippe Brasseur, devotes five distichs to Father de La Haye in "Sydera Illustrium Hannoniie Scriptorum" (p. 135), and says the great scholar was born at Bauffe,