[Charlet, Nicolas Toussaint], a designer and painter, born in Paris; famous for his sketches of military subjects and country life, in which he displayed not a little humour (1792-1845).
[Charleville] (17), a manufacturing and trading town in the dep. of Ardennes, France; exports iron, coal, wines, and manufactures hardware and beer.
[Charlevoix], a Jesuit and traveller, born at St. Quentin, explored the St. Lawrence and the Mississippi (1682-1761).
[Charlotte, Princess], daughter and only child of George IV. of England, married to Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg, afterwards king of Belgium; died after giving birth to a still-born boy, to the great grief of the whole nation (1796-1817).
[Charlotte Elizabeth of Bavaria], second wife of the Duke of Orleans, brother of Louis XIV., called the Princess Palatine (1652-1722).
[Charlottenburg] (76), a town on the Spree, 3 m. W. of Berlin, with a palace, the favourite residence of Sophie Charlotte, the grandmother of Frederick the Great, and so named by her husband Frederick I. after her death; contains the burial-place of William I., emperor of Germany.
[Charlottetown] (13), the capital of Prince Edward Island.
[Charmettes], a picturesque hamlet near Chambéry, a favourite retreat of Rousseau's.
[Charnay], a French traveller; a writer on the ancient civilisation of Mexico, which he has made a special study; b. 1828.
[Charon], in the Greek mythology the ferryman of the ghosts of the dead over the Styx into Hades, a grim old figure with a mean dress and a dirty beard, peremptory in exacting from the ghosts he ferried over the obolus allowed him for passage-money.