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* POLLEN. 7,s,s FOLSOM. FOLLEN, Eliza Lee (Cabot) (1787-1860). An American author, born in Boston, Mass. She was a friend of William Ellery Channing, and was a stanch abolitionist. Her writings were at one time very popular, and include, besides a Memoir of her husband. Prof. Charles Theodore Follen (18-12). Well-Spent //ours (1827) ; Poems on Occasional Topics (1839) ; To Mothers in the Free slates (1855); and Anti-Slavery Hymns and Songs ( 1S55). FOL'LETT, Sir William Webb (1798-1845). An English lawyer and politician, born at Top- sham, near Exeter. After studying at Trinity College, Cambridge, and at the Inner Temple, he commenced practice as a pleader in 1821. and was called to the bar in 1824, where his success Mas immediate, and his progress rapid. In 1835 he was returned to Parliament for Exeter, and soon gained distinction. Under Sir Robert Peel lie served as Solicitor-General. In 1835 he was knighted, and in 1844 succeeded Sir Frederick Pollock as Attorney-General, but his health hav- ing failed, lie was forced soon afterwards to give up practice. As an advocate. Follett was lucid and persuasive, though never eloquent. FOLLEVILLE, fol'vel', Gabriel Guillot de (17(50-94). A French priest, who took a promi- nent part in the Revolution. He was born in Brittany, and studied law, but. on the outbreak of the Revolution decided to enter the Church. He became curate of Dol in the spring of 1790; in 1791 he retracted bis oath to the civil constitu- tion, and was forced to flee to Paris by his dis- gusted parishioners. But after the Tenth of August be left Paris, went to Poitiers, and there began his remarkable career of deceit. Cuing to the Convent of the Filles de la Sagesse, he announced himself as a Papal delegate and Bishop of Agra, and became one of the leading Jacobins of the town. In 1793 the 'Bishop of Agra.' was made the head of the ecclesiastic council of Saint Laurent sur Sevre, then of the administrative and judicial councils of another department. Abbe Bernier, of Saint Laud, jeal- ous of Folleville. made inquiries in Rome about him, and learned that there was no Bishop of Agra. After the defeat of Mans he was captured, taken to Angers, recognized, tried, and guil- lotined. Consult: Chassin, La preparation de la guerre de 1 end&e (1892) ; and Bossard, L'mven- tion ile r.'iei/iie d'Agra (1893). FOLLICLE (Lat. follieulus, diminutive of follis, bag; probably connected ultimately with OHG. hallo, Ger. Ball, Icel. oollr, Eng. hall). A dry fruit or pod, composed of a single carpel, and opening by splitting down one side, as that of the peony. See Fki it. FOLL'IOTT, Dr. The leading character in Peacock's Crotchet Castle. He is disputatious and fond of classical quotations. FOLLY ISLAND. An island off the coast of South Carolina, in Charleston Harbor, extending from stone River on the south to Lighthouse Inlet on 111,, north, and separated from the main land by Follj Island Channel (Map: South Caro- lina. 10 4). It w:is the scene of some important operations during the Civil War. FOLLYWIT. The young spendthrift in Mid dl, 'ton's i i/,/,/ ii'„,-/,/. I/// Masters. The decep tions and practical jokes which he practices upon bis grandfather, Sir Bounteous Progress, arc the I incidents of the play. FOLQTJET DE MARSEILLE, fdl'ka' de mar*- sa'y' (1155-1231). A Provencal poet and trouba- dour. He was born in Marseilles of wealthy parents, but chose the roving life of a minstrel, traveled from Court to castle, reciting bis verses, making love to noble ladies, and composing in their honor poems which evidenced genuine feel- ing. When nearly forty years old he experienced a change of heart, entered the Church, and by 1203 was Bishop of Toulouse and a strenuous persecutor of heretics. Because of the asceticism of his later years, the looseness of his early life was so far overlooked that Dante awarded him a place in Paradiso (canto ix. i . Thirty of his poems remain, but there is no modern edition of them. FOL'SOM, Charles (1794-1872). An Ameri- can scholar and editor, born at Exeter, N. H. He graduated in 1813 at Harvard, and in 1816 became a chaplain in the United States Navy, and midshipmen's instructor in mathematics on board the Washington. In the latter capacity he had David G. Farragut as one of his pupils. From 1821 to 1826 he was at Harvard, as a tutor in 1821-23, as librarian in 1823-26, and as in- structor in Italian in 1825. He was subsequently a partner in the firm of Folsom, Wells & Thurs- ton, printers, and superintended the publication of classical works for Harvard. In 1824 he was an editor of the United States Literary Gazette, with W. C Bryant, and in 1833 of the Select Journal of Foreign Periodical Literature with Andrews Norton. His publications were anno- tated editions of Cicero's Select Orations (1811), and of Additional Selections from Livy (1S29). FOLSOM, Charles Follen (1842—1. An American physician, born at Haverhill, Mass. He graduated at Harvard in 18G2: from 1862 to 1865 was an instructor among the freedmen of the South; in 1870 graduated at the Harvard Medical school, and subsequently practiced medicine in Boston. In 1873-75 be studied at the universities of Vienna, Berlin, and Munich: from 1877 to 1885 was lecturer on hygiene at Harvard, and from 1879 to 1882 lecturer in and assistant pro- fessor of mental diseases. In 1882 he became a member of the National Board of Health, Lunacy, and Charity. His writings include: Menial Dis- eases, and The Present Aspect of the Sewage Question «a' Applied to Boston (1877). FOLSOM, George (1802-69). An American antiquary, born at Kennebunk, Maine. He gradu- ated in 1822 at Harvard, was subsequently ad- mitted to the bar. and practiced law at Wor- cester, Mass. In 1837 he removed to New York City, in 1844 was elected to the New York State Senate, and from 1850 to 1854 was chargG d'affaires to Holland. He was a member of the Xew York Historical Society, and at one time president of the American Ethnological Society. lie published Sketches of Saco ami Biddeford I L830) : Ituhh Annals of, w York I 1841) ; Letters an, I Dispatches of Gortez (1843); and other works. FOLSOM, Nathaniel (1726-90). An Ameri- can Revolutionary soldier and legislator, born in Exeter,. II. lie commanded a company of New Hampshire militia in the French and Indian War, served under sir William Johnson at Fori Fdward. and participated in the, l,f, Ml and cap tureoi Baron Dieskau in 17.">o. At the outbreak of the Revolution he was commissioned a briga