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 410 BAYOU SAKA and commercial docks, chamber and tribunal of commerce, distilleries, sugar refineries, and glass works. It has a considerable trade with Spain, and exports timber, tar, corks, hams, chocolate, liqueurs, and cream of tartar. It has a cathedral of the 12th century, and a cita- del built by Vauban. Bayonne is supposed to occupy the site of an ancient town named La- purdum. Though it has been besieged many times, it has never been captured, wherefore the inhabitants call it the virgin city. In the middle ages it was long held by the English with Aquitaine, but was surrendered to Charles VII. in 1451. It was here that the notorious convention between Napoleon and the court of Spain was held in April and May, 1808, in which the emperor by persuasion and threats extorted from Ferdinand VII. the retrocession of the Spanish crown to his father Charles IV., BAZA and from the latter (May 5) an abdication in favor of a successor to be chosen by Napoleon. This successor was his brother Joseph. BAYOU SARA, a village of West Felieian.i parish, La., situated on the Mississippi river, 165 m. above New Orleans ; pop. in 1870, 440. It is an important shipping point for corn and cotton. A railroad connects it with Woodville, Mississippi. BAYRHOFFER, Karl Tbeodor, a German phi- losopher and politician, born in Marburg in 1812. He studied law, but devoted himself subsequently to philosophy, on which subject he began to lecture in 1834 in Marburg, where in 1838 he received the appointment of special and in 1845 of permanent professor at the university. He advocated the views of Hegel, and in 1849 published in the Jahrlucher fur Wiwenschaft und Leben a series of papers un- Bayonne. der the name of Untersuchvngen uber Wesen, Oeschichte und Kritik der Religion, in elucida- tion of his views of the Marburg Lichtfreunde, and of the other new religious organization which grew out of the German Catholic move- ment. He took a prominent part in the revo- lutionary movements of 1848, and in Novem- ber of that year was made a member of the diet of Hesse-Cassel, in which body he was the leader of the democratic party, and for a short time president of the chamber ; but after the defeat of the democratic party he went to Paris and afterward to America. BAZA (anc. Batti), a town of Spain, in the province and 51 m. E. N. E. of the city of Gra- nada; pop. about 9,000. It is situated in a high valley near the river Baza, between the Sierras de Baza and de Javalcol, and has a suburb chiefly consisting of caverns. In the Gothic collegiate church is the tomb of its patron saint, Maximus ; and there nre several other fine churches and convents. The women of Baza are celebrated for their beauty and picturesque costume. The occupation of the inhabitants is mainly agricultural. A rich red wine is produced in the vicinity and mixed with aguardiente distilled from aniseed. Re- mains of antiquity abound in this region. The town was called Bastiana in the middle ages and Bastah by the Moors, who captured i early in the 8th century, and under whom it became one of the most nourishing commercial emporiums of Andalusia, with a population of 50,000. It was taken from them in 1489 by the Spaniards commanded by Queen Isabella in person, after a siege of seven months. Some of the rude cannon used by the Moors are still preserved here. In August, 1810, Soult de-