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canal to Maestricht has 16 sluices). B. is in the university of Paris, in 1809; and,
defended by several forts and a citadel. in 1812, after the death of Larcher, whom
The city has four gates, and three en- he succeeded in the institute, principal
trances from the water. The cathedral professor. The king made him a memis one of the finest in the Netherlands. ber of the legion of honor in 1814, and,
The city suffered much in the religious in 1816, member of the academy of inwars of the 16th century, and fell into the scriptions. Besides valuable contributions
hands of the Dutch in 1629. Sept. 14, to the Journal des Debats, to the JMNercure,
1794, the French defeated the English to the JlMagazin Encyclopedique, to the
here; Oct. 9 of the same year, it surren- Biographie Universelle, and to the Notices
dered to Pichegru. In January, 1814, it et Extraits (10 vols.), we are indebted to
was taken by the Prussian general Builow. him for an edition of the HIeroica of PhiBoISSERiuE. A celebrated gallery of lostratus (1806), and of the Rhetoric of
pictures is exhibited in Stuttgart, which Tiberius (1815). Still more important
was collected by the brothers Sulpice are his editions of Eunapus' Lives of the
and Melchior Boisser~e, and John Ber- Sophists, of Proclus' Commentary on the
tram, men who, animated by love of the Cratylus of Plato, never before printed;
arts, began, at the time of the destruction of a Greek romance by Nicetas Eugeniaof the monasteries, during and after the nus, &c. lie compiled, also, a French
French revolution, to purchase old pic- dictionary, on the plan of Johnson's.
tures, and afterwards completed their BOJACA, BATTLE OF, SO called, from
collection by the addition of many valua- having been fought near the bridge of the
ble paintings of the old German school. small town of Bojaca, not far from the
By this collection, the brothers Boisser6e, city of Tunja, between the Spaniards,
and Bertram, have happily realized the under Barreyro, and the united forces
idea of a historical series of old German of Venezuela and New Grenada, compaintings. It is to their endeavors that manded by Bolivar. It occurred August
we owe the discovery, that Germany pos- 7th, 1819, and was decisive of the indesessed, as early as the 13th century, a pendence of New Grenada. Among the
school of painters of much merit, which, republicans, generals Anzuategui, Paez
like the Italian, proceeded from the old and Santander distinguished themselves;
Byzantine school, but became, in the se- and the Spaniards sustained a total dequel, distinguished by excellences of its feat, their general, most of their officers
own. We owe to these collectors, also, and men who survived the battle, together
the restoration to favor of the forgotten with all their arms, ammun'tion and
Low German masters, and a just estima- equipments, falling into the hands of
tion of John von Eyck, as the creator of Bolivar. So complete was the destruethe genuine German style of painting. tion of the Spanish army, that the viceBy this collection, the names of von Eyck, roy instantly fled from Santa F6, leaving
Wilhelm von KIoln, Hemling, Goes, Mec- even the public treasure a prey to the
kenem, Wohlgemuth, Schoen, Mabuse, conquerors.
Schoorel, and many others, have attained BOLE; a fossil of a yellow, brown, or red.
deserved honor. The most distinguished color, often marked with black dendrites;
connoisseurs and artists, including Gothe, found in different parts of Bohemia, SiCanova, Dannecker and Thorwaldsen, lesia and Stiria, also in Lemnos, and at
have strongly expressed their admiration Sienna in Italy. It is made into pipes
of this collection. The proprietors are for smoking, and vessels for cooling water
publishing a work consisting of excellent in hot weather. The terra sigillata is
lithographic prints from their pictures. nothing but bole
In the autumn of 1.820, the publication BOLEYN, or BOLEN, Anne, second wife
of the splendid engravings, illustrative of of Henry VIII of England, was the
the cathedral in Cologne, was resolved youngest child of sir Thomas Boleyn and
on. The plates surpass, in size and exe- a daughter of the duke of Norfolk. She
cution, every thing which had appeared was born, according to some accounts, in
in the department of architectural deline- 1507, but, according to other more probations, and were partly made in Paris. able ones, in 1499 or 1500. She attended
(See Boisser6e's Geschichte und Beschrei- iMary, sister of Henry, on her marriage
bung des Doms von K61n, Stuttgart, 1823.) with Louis XII, to France, as lady of
BoiSSONADE, Jean Franqois, born at honor. On the return of that princess,
Paris, 1774, one of the most distinguished after the king's death, she entered the
Greek scholars in France, was made as- service of queen Claude, wife of Francis
gista.nt professor of the Greek language I, and, after her death, that of the duchless