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 CORBAUX pretence of dedicating anything as his property to God, a person might prohibit the use of it to his parents or to any party to whom it was thus made corban. Property so dedicated went into the treasury of the temple and the keeping of the Pharisees, who held that when the formula was once spoken, even if in anger, the speaker was relieved of any duty to aid another with what he had so devoted. CORBAUX, Fanny, an English artist and Bib- lical scholar, born in 1812. When she was about 15 years of age her father suddenly be- came reduced to poverty, and, without having received any but the most superficial instruc- tions in drawing, she determined to support herself and him by painting. So severe and well directed were her labors, that in the same year she received two silver medals for water- color drawings, and within the next three years another silver medal and the gold medal of the society of arts. She had been all the time her own instructor. After that she paint- ed small pictures in oil and water colors, but has confined herself chiefly to portrajts. She was one of the first to assert the right of women to obtain admission as students to the royal academy. As a Biblical scholar she has written a valuable series of letters on " The Physical Geography of the Exodus," and an- other entitled " The Rephaim." CORBEIL, a town of France, in the depart- ment of Seine-et-Oise, on both banks of the Seine at its confluence with the Essonne, 17 m. S. by E. of Paris ; pop. in 1866, 5,541. It con- tains many flour mills, an immense granary of seven stories built in 1762 for the supply of Paris, and a fine grain market of iron, built in 1862. There are stone bridges across the Seine and the Essonne. The church of St. Spire, rebuilt in 1437 after a fire, having been first built in 950 by Haymon, first count of Oorbeil, contains the tomb of Jacques de Bourgoin, founder of the college of Corbeil ; and the little church of St. Jean de 1'lle was built by the templars in the 13th century. Just outside the town there is a hospital founded in 1864 by the Messrs. Galignani. Corbeil has manufactures of shawls, cashmeres, printed goods, woollen yarn, earthenware, and plaster. CORBET, Richard, an English poet and divine, born at Ewell, Surrey, in 1582, died in 1635. He was educated at Westminster school and at Christchurch college, Oxford, of which he be- came dean in 1620. He was much esteemed for his eccentric wit and generous spirit, was made chaplain to James I., bishop of Oxford in 1629, and of Norwich in 1632. His poems, written early in life, were published after his death under the title ofPoetica Stromata (1647). A fourth edition, with his life, was published in London in 1809. CORBOULD. I. Henry, an English artist, born in London, Aug. 13, 1787, died there, Dec. 9, 1844. He was considered one of the most ac- complished draughtsmen of his time, and de- voted nearly his whole life to drawing from CORDAY 343 ancient marbles in the possession of various private collectors, and of the British museum. The collection in the latter institution occu- pied him nearly 30 years, and his drawings were in the course of publication at the time of his death. He was also a frequent and graceful designer for illustrated books. II, Edward Henry, an English painter, son of the preceding, born in London, Dec. 5, 1815. He early manifested a taste for art, and between 1835 and 1837 gained gold medals awarded by the society of arts for his " Fall of Phaethon from the Chariot of the Sun," " St. George and the Dragon," and " Chariot Race between Atrides and Antilochus." Soon afterward he was elected a member of the new society of painters in water colors. Some of his earliest pieces, exhibited at the royal academy and elsewhere, illustrated subjects from Spenser's " Faerie Queen." His first large picture was " The Canterbury Pilgrims at the Tabard Inn in the Borough of South wark," which was fol- lowed by a number illustrating scenes from English history and kindred subjects. In 1842- his " Woman taken in Adultery " was pur- chased by the prince consort for Queen Vic- toria. In 1851 he was appointed teacher of drawing to the royal family. He paints ex- clusively in water colors, confining himself chiefly to figure subjects, and is noted f Di- spirited composition and a peculiar richness of coloring. His picture from Tennyson's " Morte- d' Arthur" is esteemed his best work. He excels in pageants and chivalric subjects. He has also painted scenes from the opera and the drama, including portraits of Garcia, Mario,, Grisi, and Charles Kean. CORCYRA. See CORFU. CORDARA, Ginlio Cesare, an Italian Jesuit, bom in Alessandria in 1704, died there in 1790. He was the second son of the count of Calaman- drana, entered the society of Jesus in his 14th year, and, after teaching in the colleges of Viterbo, Fermo, and Ancona, was appointed professor in the Roman college. In 1742 he was chosen historiographer of his order, and in 1750 published a continuation of the history of the society of Jesus by Orlandini, Sacchini, and Jouvency (2 vols. fol.). On the suppres- sion of the Jesuits he retired to his native city, where he continued to cultivate poetry and letters. His works, which also comprise a his- tory of the foundation of Nice, of the Germanic and Hungarian colleges in Rome, and of Prince Charles Edward's expedition to Scotland, were published in Venice in 1805, in 4 vols. 4to. CORDAY D'ARMANS, Mariane Charlotte de, a French heroine, born at St. Saturnin des Li- gnerets, in the present department of Orne, July 28, 1768, guillotined in Paris, July 17, 1793. Her father was a poor Norman nobleman of lite- rary tastes, and author of works of a republi- can tendency. Her mother died during her early youth; her two brothers entered the army ; one of her sisters died young, and she and her remaining sister were placed by