[Bouguer, Pierre], French physicist, born in Brittany; wrote on optics and the figure of the earth (1698-1758).
[Bouguereau, Adolphe], a distinguished French painter, born at Rochelle in 1825; his subjects both classical and religious, as well as portraits.
[Bouhour, le Père], French littérateur, born at Paris (1628-1702).
[Bouillé, Marquis de], a French general, born in Auvergne, distinguished in the Seven Years' War, in the West Indies and during the Revolution; "last refuge of royalty in all straits"; favoured the flight of Louis XVI.; a "quick, choleric, sharp-discerning, stubbornly-endeavouring man, with suppressed-explosive resolution, with valour, nay, headlong audacity; muzzled and fettered by diplomatic pack-threads,... an intrepid, adamantine man"; did his utmost for royalty, failed, and quitted France; died in London, and left "Memoirs of the French Revolution" (1759-1800). See for the part he played in it, [Carlyle's] "French Revolution."
[Bouillon], district in Belgium, originally a German duchy; belonged to Godfrey, the crusader, who pledged it to raise funds for the crusade.
[Bouilly, Jean Nicolas], a French dramatist, born near Tours, nicknamed, from his sentimentality "poète lacrymal" (1763-1842).
[Boulainvilliers], a French historian, author of a "History of Mahomet" (1658-1722).
[Boulak] (20), the port of Cairo, on the Nile.
[Boulan`ger, Jean Marie], a French general, born at Rennes; of note for the political intrigues with which he was mixed up during the last years of his life, and the dangerous popular enthusiasm which he excited; accused of peculation; fled the country, and committed suicide at Brussels (1837-1891).
[Boulay de la Meurthe], a French statesman, distinguished as an orator; took part in the redaction of the Civil Code; was a faithful adherent of Napoleon (1761-1840). Henri, a son, vice-president of the Republic from 1849 to 1851 (1797-1858).