The true Cimetière des Bourguignons is the enclosure where René, the victor of Nancy, buried the Burgundians who fell on the sad Sunday when Charles the Bold went down before the deaf châtelain Claude de Bagemont.
Neither of my companions, I fear, would have acted as Sejanus did, when another emperor was in danger of his life in the cave on the Gulf of Amyclæ. (Tacit. Ann. iv. 59.)
Water reduced to a temperature below 32° without freezing, begins to freeze as soon as a crystal is dropped into it, the ice forming first on the faces of the crystal.
Water attains its maximum of specific gravity at 40°. Below 40° it becomes lighter.
Première Série, t. xx. pp. 261, &c.