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 DUVERGIER DE HAURANNE DUXBURY and become emperor of Germany. His complete works, chiefly on numismatics, with a memoir, were published at Basel (with the imprint of St. Petersburg) in 1784, in 2 vols. 8vo, and at Paris in 1785, in 3 vols. 18mo. DUVERGIER DE 1IAURAME. I. Jean, a French theologian, born in Bayonne in 1581, died in Paris, Oct. 11, 1643. He was educated in theology at Louvain, where Jansenius was at the same time a student, with whom he formed an intimate friendship, and who accompanied him to Bayonne, but soon returned. Duvergier was appointed canon of Bayonne, and after- ward of Poitiers and abbot of St. Cyran. His rigor and zeal becoming known, he was in- vited to Paris, where he made numerous dis- ciples in all classes of society. He refused several bishoprics. His Jansenist principles brought upon him the enmity of the Jesuits, and in 1638 he was imprisoned at Vincennes by order of Richelieu, after whose death he was released, but did not long survive. His most celebrated writings are those which he directed against the Jesuit Garasse. Pascal, Arnauld, and Nicole were his disciples. II. Prosper, a French politician and author, de- scended from a brother of the preceding, born in Rouen, Aug. 3, 1798. He was for many years associated as a journalist with Guizot, R6musat, and Rossi. In 1831 he was chosen to the chamber of deputies from Sancerre, and at first gave his support to the government of Louis Philippe, but became one of the promi- nent champions of reform. After the revolu- tion of 1848 he represented the department of Cher in the constituent assembly, and in No- vember, 1850, became a member of the legisla- tive assembly. After the coup d'etat of 1851 he was imprisoned, and then banished until August, 1852. His principal work is the His- toire du gouvernement parlementaire en France (7 vols., Paris, 1857-'65). He was elected a member of the academy in 1870. DUVERNOY, Georges Lonis, a French natural- ist, born in Montbe"liard, Aug. 6, 1777, died in Paris, March 1, 1855. He pursued his studies at Stuttgart, Strasburg, and Paris, and in 1802 was invited by Cuvier, to whom he was related, to assist in editing his treatise on com- parative anatomy. With the aid of the notes and counsels of his master, he prepared the last three volumes of this work, embracing the organs of digestion, respiration, circulation, generation, and the secretions. For 20 years he practised medicine in Montbe"liard, publish- ing only a few writings on fossils. In 1827 he was elected professor of natural history at Strasburg, where during ten years he published a variety of papers on anatomical subjects ; and after the death of Cuvier he was engaged in arranging his papers for publication. In 837 he was elected professor of natural his- tory in the college de France, and in 1850 was transferred to the chair of comparative anat- omy. His numerous works have furnished im- portant materials to anatomists and zoologists. DUVEYRIER. I. Honpre Nicolas Marie, baron, a French jurist and politician, born at Pignans, Provence, Dec. 6, 1753, died in May, 1839. He received a military education, but devoted him- self to the law, and became a distinguished bar- rister. Louis XVI. sent him three days pre- vious to his flight to Varennes on a mission to the prince de Conde", but he was detained for some time as a prisoner by the Austrians. Though elected on his return a member of the commune of Paris, he was put in prison at the instigation of Robespierre. After his release he was employed abroad as a commissioner for the supply of the French armies. In 1796 he re- sumed his practice in Paris, and was afterward general administrator of finance in Rome, ac- quiring a large fortune. He eventually became president of the court of appeal at Montpellier. His heroi-tragical comedy La courpleniere made a great sensation at the time of its publication (1775), and its authorship was long ascribed to Beaumarchais. His other principal work, in which his son Charles participated, is ISHis- toire des premiers electeurs de Paris en 1789. II. Anne Honore Joseph, known as a dramatic author under the pseudonyme Melesville, son of the preceding, born in Paris, Nov. 13, 1788, died there in 1865. He was originally a law- yer and magistrate, but after the restoration devoted himself to the drama. He wrote more than 300 plays, chiefly in conjunction with Scribe, and Le chevalier de St. Georges with Roger de Beauvoir. Among the best known comic operas of which he wrote the text is Zampa. III. Charles, brother of the preceding, born in Paris, April 12, 1803, died there, Nov. 10, 1866. He was an active St. Simonian, and organized branches of that sect in England 'and Belgium, wrote for Michel Chevalier's Globe, and was sentenced to one year's imprisonment for having published in that journal an article entitled De lafemme. Subsequently he wrote plays with his brother and other .authors. In 1855 he composed with Scribe the text of Verdi's " Sicilian Vespers." IV. Henri, son of the preceding, an explorer of Africa, born in Paris, Feb. 28, 1840. He completed his educa- tion in Germany, became acquainted with the traveller Barth, qualified himself for explora- tions by special studies in Paris, was in Africa in 1857 and 1859, and published Exploration du Sahara (2 vols., Paris, 1864 et seq. be- sides contributions to periodicals and to the French and German geographical societies. He served in the French army in 1871, and was for some time a prisoner of war in the German fortress of Neisse. DUXBURY, a town of Plymouth co., Massa- chusetts, on the N. shore of Plymouth harbor, at the terminus of the Duxbury and Cohasset extension of the South Shore railroad, 27 m. S. S. E. of Boston; pop. in 1870, 2,341. The N. E. boundary of the harbor is a peninsula, about 6 m. long, called the Gurnet. Near its extremity are two fixed lights. Duxbury is the terminus of the Atlantic telegraphic cable