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 340 LENAPES LENNEP the distance of 800 m. from its mouth is 5 or 6 m. wide. It is navigable through the great- er part of its course, but the surrounding coun- try is bleak and desolate. LENAPES. See DELAWARES. LENAU, Nikolans, a German poet, whose real name was NIEMBSCH VON STREHLENATJ, born at Csatad, Hungary, Aug. 15, 1802, died at Ober- dobling, near Vienna, Aug. 22, 1850. He studied in Vienna, visited the United States, and resided in Vienna, Ischl, and Stuttgart. He was about to be married in 1844, when he was seized with insanity, from which he never recovered. He has been characterized as "the poet of melancholy." His most exquisite songs relate to Poland and Hungary. His larger works, the drama Faust (1835) and the epics Savonarola (1837) and Die Albigenser (1842), all which passed through many editions, are fine though abstruse poems, in which a lyric character predominates. He himself consid- ered the drama Don Juan (1851) as his master- piece. Anastasius Grim edited his complete works (4 vols., Stuttgart, 1855; new ed. with a biographical notice, 2 vols., 1874). ^ LENAWEE, a S. E. county of Michigan; bor- dering on Ohio, and drained by Kaisin and Macon rivers and several other streams ; area, 735 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 45,595. It has a rolling surface, well wooded in some places, and a fertile soil, consisting chiefly of a black sandy loam. Iron ore is found. The Michigan Southern railroad and the Detroit and Jackson branches pass through it. The chief produc- tions in 1870 were 685,019 bushels of wheat, 964,306 of Indian corn, 402,396 of oats, 36,804 of barley, 302,402 of potatoes, 550,426 Ibs. of wool, 1,467,408 of butter, 78,442 of cheese, and 68,332 tons of hay. There were 12,138 horses, 15,772 milch cows, 16,700 other cattle, 112,653 sheep, and 25,322 swine. There were numerous manufacturing establishments, in- cluding 9 of agricultural implements, 9 of brick, 38 of carriages, 1 of cars, 15 of cheese, 9 of iron castings, 11 of machinery, 2 of wool- len goods, 4 breweries, 6 tanneries, 6 currying establishments, 4 planing mills, 39 saw mills, and 14 flour mills. Capital, Adrian. LENCAS, a tribe of Indians occupying the high plateaus of Otoro and Intibucat, S. W. of the city of Oomayagua, Honduras. They speak dialects of a language which seems to have been widely diffused through the central por- tions of Honduras, and which the Spaniards, following the designation of their Mexican auxiliaries, vaguely denominated Ohontal, a word which signifies simply foreign or barba- rous. At present the Lencas occupy the mountain towns of Opoteca, Guajiquero, Lau- teroque, Intibucat, Yamalauguira, &c., and number from 35,000 to 40,000. They are in- dustrious, frugal, and thrifty, peaceable but brave, devotedly attached to their mountain homes, and altogether good citizens of the state. L'ENCLOS, Ninon or Anne de, a French lady of pleasure, born in Paris, probably May 15, 1616, died there, Oct. 17, 1706. Her father, a gen- tleman of Touraine, trained her by precept and example to a life of pleasure. She was skilled in accomplishments, and when an orphan at the age of 15 manifested precocious shrewdness in managing her property, which she so dis- posed of as to speedily double its value. Being beautiful, witty, and fond of cultivated society, she soon became popular in Paris, where she fixed her residence, her favors being sought by many of the most eminent men of the age. She was remarkable for being neither avari- cious nor extravagant, and, with a constant succession of lovers, appears never to have depended on them for pecuniary aid. Dis- tinguished women courted her society, and Mme. de Lafayette, Mme. de Sully, and Mme. Scarron (afterward De Maintenon) were among her friends and visitors. Christina of Sweden, during her residence in France, was warmly attached to her, and wished her to take a place in her little court, but Ninon preferred inde- pendence. She was regarded as a model of refinement and elegance in her manners. Al- though she led a life of pleasure far into old age, she preserved her beauty and fascination almost to the last, and is said to have had lov- ers for three generations in the family of Se"- vigne In the works of Saint-Evremond, who was one of her lovers, are some letters by her which are the only authentic pieces from her .pen, though La coquette vengee (Paris, 1649) and other works are attributed to her. The great Conde, La Eochefoucauld, Villarceaux, and D'Estrees were among her most favored admirers, and the most eminent poets sang her charms. She had two sons. One, the cheva- lier de la Boissiere, whose paternity could not be determined, rose to distinction in the navy. The other, who received from his father, the marquis de Gersay, the name of Villiers, was the victim of an unhallowed passion for his mother; he had been reared in ignorance of his birth, and at the age of 19 (his mother then being 56), on learning the secret from her lips while urging his love, he blew out his brains. This event, however, made no change in the life of Ninon, who always seemed dead to the instincts of maternal tenderness. IJENEPVEU, Jnles Engene, a French painter, born in Angers, Dec. 12, 1819. His first pic- tures were " Idyl " (1843), and " The Death of Vitellius " (1847), which latter won the Ro- man prize, enabling him to spend a number of years in Italy. He returned to Paris in 1853. His subsequent works comprise " The Martyrs in the Catacombs," " Pius IX. in the Sistine Chapel," and " Corpus Christi at Venice," all exhibited in 1855. His finest paintings are " A Venetian Wedding" (1857), and "Moses as- sisting the Daughters of Midian" (1859). In 1869 he succeeded Hesse as an academician, and in December, 1872, Hubert as director of the French school at Rome. LENNEP, a town of Prussia, in the province of the Rhine, on the river Lennep, 22 m. E. of