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 310 PERRAULT PERRY masterpieces are the statues of a man strug- gling with destiny, which he called " Adam," of " Despair," and of a faun. PERRAULT, Charles, a French author, born in Paris, Jan. 12, 1628, died there, May 16, 1703. He was educated at the college de Beauvais, studied law, and was admitted to practise at the Paris bar in 1651. In 1654 he entered as a clerk the employment of his brother, who held an office in the department of finance. He rose rapidly in the department, largely through the influence of Colbert, and filled the places of head clerk and afterward of superin- tendent of the royal buildings. He was ad- mitted to the academy in 1671, where he exer- cised much influence and introduced great re- forms. Perrault produced a great number of works, from an early burlesque on part of the ^Eneid, written before his examination for the bar, to the book he considered his most impor- tant one, Parallels des anciens et des modernes (4 vols., 1688-'98), and his volume of biogra- phies, Hommes illustres du siecle de Louis XIV. (folio, 1696-1701). His writings were on sub- jects of every kind, and comprised poems, dramas, burlesques, compilations, histories, &c. ; but all, including the two works above named, have long been practically forgotten, except his collections of fairy tales. These Contes des fees, appearing between 1670 and 1702, were considered by him of little consequence ; but they attained great popularity, and have been translated into many languages. His Memoires were published at Avignon in 1759. His elder brother CLAUDE (1613-'88), originally a physi- cian and afterward an architect, was the author of the plans for the new Louvre and the ob- servatory, of a translation of Vitruvius, and of other architectural books. PERREXOT, Antoine. See GKANVELLE. PERRON, Anqnetil du. See ANQUETIL-DUPEK- EOJT. PERRONE, Giovanni, an Italian theologian, born in Chieri, Piedmont, in 1794. Having gradu- ated as doctor of theology in the university of Turin, he entered the society of Jesus in Rome in 1815, and in 1816 was sent to teach theolo- gy at Orvieto. He was appointed professor of theology in the Roman college in 1823, and held this post, with a few intervals during which he filled the office of rector in the col- lege of Ferrara (1830-'33) and in the Roman college (1853-'6), down to the suppression of the Jesuit houses in 1873. In 1848 he took refuge with some of his pupils in England, and opened for them and the young English Jesuits a course at Stonyhurst, returning to Rome in 1850. In 1854 he took a leading part with Passaglia in the discussions preliminary to the promulgation of the bull Ineffdbilis Deus, de- fining the dogma of the Immaculate Concep- tion, and was equally conspicuous during the council of the Vatican. Padre Perrone has long been a prominent member, as consultor, of nearly all the papal congregations on doc- trine, discipline, and liturgy. His lectures on theology since 1835 have superseded all others in nearly all the Roman Catholic schools in both hemispheres. Among upward of 60 dif- ferent works published by him, the following are the most important: Preelections Theo- logies (9 vols. 8vo, Rome, 1835), which has had upward of 30 editions, and has been trans- lated into French and German; Preelections Theologic^ abridged from the above (4 vols., 1845 ; 31st ed., 1864) ; Tra&tatus de Hatrimonio (Rome and Lyons, 1840); Synopsis Histories Theologies cum Philosophia comparatce (Rome, 1845) ; De Immaculato B. V. Marice Conceptu: an Dogmatico Decreto dejiniri possit (1847; reedited several times, and translated into French, German, and Dutch) ; II Protestantis- mo e la regola di fede (3 vols., 1853 ; French translation, Paris, 1854) ; Memoriale Prcedica- torum (2 vols., 1864) ; and De Dimnitate D. N. Jesu Christi (Turin, 1870). PERROT, Georges, a French archaeologist, born at Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, department of Seine-et-Oise, Nov. 12, 1832. He studied at the college Charlemagne, at the normal school, and from 1855 to 1858 at the French school in Athens. He was professor in various places till 1863, when he became connected with the lyceum Louis-le-Grand, where he was subse- quently appointed titular professor of rhetoric. He 'explored Asia Minor in 1861, and spent some time at Ancyra in researches relating to the inscription on the temple erected there by the Galatians in honor of Augustus, known as the monument of Ancyra or the political testa- ment of Augustus. In conjunction with the architect Edmond Guillaume and Jules Delbet, he published, under the auspices of the govern- ment, D Exploration arcJieologique de la Gala- tie et de la Bithynie, d'une partie de la Mysie, de la Phrygie, de la Cappadoce et du Pont (2 vols., Paris, 1862-'9). His other works com- prise Souvenirs d^un voyage en Asie Mineure (1864) ; Memoire sur Vile de Thasos (1864; new ed., 1867); lifted* CWte(1866); De Galatia, Provincia Romana (1867); and Essai sur le droit public etprive de larepublique athenienne (1867), which won a Montyon prize from the academy. He has also translated in conjunc- tion with Georges Harris the fourth edition of Max Mtiller's " Science of Language." PERRY, the name of counties in ten of the United States. I. A S. county of Pennsyl- vania, bounded E. by the Susquehanna, and intersected toward the north by the Juniata river and south by Sherman's creek ; area, 540 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 25,447. Its surface is mountainous, the Tuscarora range forming the N. W. boundary and the Blue mountains the S. E., but much of the land is very fertile. It is intersected by the Pennsylvania railroad. The chief productions in 1870 were 286,725 bushels of wheat, 29,508 of rye, 417,235 of In- dian corn, 435,885 of oats, 118,197 of potatoes, 25,263 tons of hay, 20,449 Ibs. of wool, and 366,221 of butter. There were 4,885 horses, 5,501 milch cows, 7,001 other cattle, 7,119