Clootz, a French Revolutionary and one of the founders of the “Worship of Reason:” guillotined 1794
Colburn, (Zerah), b. at Vermont, U.S.A., in 1804, and noted in youth for his extraordinary powers of calculation (d. 1840)
Coligni, Gaspard de, French admiral and leader of the Huguenots; massacred on St. Bartholomew’s Eve, 1572
Colle, Charles, dramatist and song-writer (d. 1777); young Crebillon (d. 1777) wrote fiction
Condorcet, a French Marquis (1743-94) of moderate Revolutionary tendencies, who fell a victim to the Extremists He wrote extensively and clearly, but without genius
Constituent Assembly, the National Assembly of France from 1789 to 1792
Corderius, a famous sixteenth-century teacher—Calvin was a pupil of his—in France and Switzerland (d. 1564) who published several school-books
Cortes, conqueror of Mexico (1485-1547); the Spanish Parliament
Cotta, Caius, a famous Roman orator, partly contemporary with Cicero, who mentions him with honour
Courland, a province on the Baltic once belonging to Poland since 1795 to Russia