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* BEMSEN. 10 REM?. REM'SEN, Ira (lS4(i— ). An Auioiiian ehpiii- ist, liorii ill New York t'ity. He {(liuiuntcd liuiu the College ol the City of 5,ev York in 18(i.5, Irom the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, in 1807, ami received his Ph.D. from the University of Liuttingen, Germany, in 1870, From 1870 to 187"i he was a.ssistant in chemistry at the universities of Tiihingen, Mmieh, and Cijttingen, Germany ; and from 1872 to I87U, pro- fessor of chemistry and physics in Williams Col- lege. In 1870 he was made professor of chemis- try in .Johns Hopkins University, and in I'JOI succeeded Dr. Gilman as president of the univer- sity. Dr. Kemsen has carried out a number of important investigations in both inorganic and organic chemistry. He is editor of the American Chemical Journal, founded by him in 1879. His book-form publications include the Principles of Theoretical Chemistrij (4th ed. 1892) ; Organic Chemistry (latest edition 1899) ; Introduction to the Study of Chemistry (1885) ; and the£/t')He)i/s of Chemistry (1887). Remsen's text-books have passed through many editions in this country and have been republished in England and translated into several foreign languages. They form a re- markably clear exposition of the fundamental principles of the science and are well known among students of chemistry both in this country and abroad. RE'MUS. The brother of Romulus and co- founder of Rome. REMUS, Uncle. A character invented by .Joel Chandler Harris in Uncle Remus; His Sonys and Sayings (1880), and other stories. He is an old plantation darky, who entertains the son of ills mistress with quaint .stories of the doings of Bre'r Fox, Bre'r Rabbit, and other animals, illus- trating their various traits and interspersed with shrewd philosophy. The author used the folk tales current among negroes in the southern part of the United States, and several of his .stories aroused the curiosity of those interested in folk- lore. REMUSAT, ra'mu'zli'. Charles Franqois Marie, Count de (1797-1875). A French poli- tician and philosophic historian, born Jlarch 14, 1797, in Paris. He was the son of Claire Elisa- beth .Jeanne Remusat ( q.v. ). Remusat studied with brilliant success, and in 1818 began his career as a journalist and supporter of Ciuizot. He contributed constantly to Le Globe from its establishment in 1824. From 1830 to 1848 he >as Deputy, and for brief periods Under-Secre- tarv of State (1830) and Minister of the Interior (1840). After the revolution of February, 1848, he was elected to the Constituent and Legislative Assemblies, and became an ojjponent of Louis Napoleon, by whom he was exiled after the coup d'etat. He was amnestied in 1859 and devoted himself to literature and science. From 1871 to 1873 he was Minister of Foreign Affairs. The most noteworthy of his writings are Essais de philoso- phie (1842), Abclard (1845), Passe et present (1847), L'Anqlrlerrc au XYIII. sidcle (1856), Baron (18.58), Hartley (1874), Eistoire de la philosophic en Anyleterre depvis Bacon iusgu'i), Locke (1875). AJfter his death were published six volumes of Correspondance pendant Ics premi- eres annrrs de la Bestauration (1883-90). REMUSAT, Claire Elisabeth .Jeanne Gra- viER DE Vergennes, Countess de (1780-1821). A writer of memoirs, born in Paris. She was a grand-niece of Vergeimes, Prime .Minister under Louis WL, a noted beauty of tlie Court of Na- poleon 1.. and an intimate friend (jf .losephine. As wife of Count .ugustin Lauri'nt de Kfuiusat, chamberlain of Napoleon, and as dame dc /lalais, she was acquainted with the intimate life of the Napoleonic Court, of which she left an ac- count in her Mcnioirc» published' long after her death (1879). She was also the author of an h'ssai siir I'edueation dcs femmcs (1824). REMUSAT, .Ilan Pierre Abel (1788-1832). A French Orientalist, horn in Paris; the son of a surgeon. His father taught him Latin, which he wrote and s|)oke with great ease. He took up Chine-se and unaided brought out in 1811 hi« Essai siir la. lanyuc ct la littcrature chinoises. He received his degree as a phjsician at twenty- five, and served in the military hospitals. A chair of Chinese having been established at the CoU&ge de France in 1814, Remusat was ap- pointed to it. He was made a member of the Academy in ISKi, and in 1818 succeeded Visconti as editor of the Journal dcs Havants. He was one of the principal founders of the Soci6tfe Asiatique of Paris in 1822, and was long its sec- retary. He translated and wrote a good deal, many of his shorter productions appearing in the Moniteur and other periodicals, as well as in the Journal of the Asiatic Society. He died of cholera in Paris. His principal works are: Livrc des recompenses et dcs peines (the Chi- nese Kanyinfi-pien), with notes and illustrations (Paris, 1816) ; L'invariable milieu of Tsz'-t.se (1817); Description du royaume de Vaniboge (1819) ; Hisloire de la ville de Khotan, to which is appended a treatise in which he endeavors to show that jade is the jaspis of the ancients (1820); Elements de la grammairc chinoisc (1822) ; Mcmoire sur la I'ie ct les opinions de Lao-tse (1823) ; Melanges asiatiques (1825) ; lu- Kiao-li, or "The Two Cousins" (1820); lic- cherches sur les langues tartares (1829); iVou- veaux melanges asiatiques (1829) ; and t'oe Kouf. Ki, ou relations des royaumes bouddiques (a translation of the travels of the Buddhist pilgrim Fa-hien, unfinished at the time of his death, but revised, completed, and supplemented by Klap- roth and Landresse, and brought out in 1830). Consult Silvestre de Saey, Sotice sur Ui vie et les ourrages de Remusat (Paris, 1834). REMY, ra'me', Caroline (1855—). A French journalist, best known by her pseudonym of Severine. She was born in Paris, and in 1880 met in Brussels the communard .Jules Vall&s, with whom she wrote for Paris papers, and, after 1883, for his Cri du Pcuple. On Vall&s's death Mile. Re'niy married Guchhard, a eo-editor of the Cri du Pcuple. which for several years was carried on under her supervision, in the mean- time turning from socialism to pliihinthropic sentimcntalism. Besides she appealed for many charities in the eolunms of the Figaro, (lit Bias. Gaulois. and Petit Journal. In the nineties she made herself famous by publishing an interview with Leo XIIL, and in 1890 by a bitter personal warfare with Kochefort. REMY, or REMI, Saint. (1) The apostle of the Franks (437-C.533). He was born of noble familv at T^eon. He was appointed in 459, against his' will, to the Bishopric of Rhcims, and his episcopate is memorable for the conversion