DESNOYERS, AUGUSTE GASPARD LOUIS BOU CHER, BARON (1 7 85 7) , French engraver, was born in Paris on Dec. 19, 1779. He started his artistic education at the age of 12 under Lethiere. After visiting Italy he entered the studio of Alexandre Tardieu in 1799, and became one of the most eminent line engravers of his time. His fame was established in 1805 by an engraving after the "Belle Jardinière" of Raphael ; whereupon Napoleon I. commissioned him to reproduce his full-length por trait in coronation robes by Gerard. He died in Paris on Feb. 2, DE SOTO: see SOTO, FERDINANDO DE.
DE SOTO, a city of Jefferson county, Missouri, U.S.A., 42m. S.S.W. of Saint Louis, on Joachim creek. It is served by the Missouri Pacific railroad. The population was 5,003 in 1920; 193o it .was 5,069. It is in a fertile agricultural region, and lead, zinc, tin, barytes and silica are mined in the vicinity. The city has railroad shops employing Boo men, a plate-glass factory, and large shoe and clothing factories. De Soto was laid out in and incorporated in 1869.