YVON', ADOLPHE, b. Lorraine, 1817; studied painting under Paul Delaroche. He spent several years in Russia, and many of his historical pictures are of Russian events. His most noted work is the " Capture of the Malakhoff," 1857, executed on the spot. Other well-known historical works are: "The Battle of Solferino," and "Magenta," .and "The First Consul Descending the Alps." M. Yvon has also been very successful in genre painting and portraiture.
last letter of the English and other west European alphabets, had no place in the original Latin alphabet, but was adopted in the time of Cicero from theGreek along with y (v), and thus stood last. In Greek it had the sixth place, and had the power of a double consonant, being equivalent to ds or sd; in Latin its use was •confined to words of Greek origin. In High-Ger., in which it is pronounced like ts, it corresponds tot in the Low-Germanic and the Scandinavian tongues, e.g., zed = Eng.
.tide (time). In Ita z or zz mostly takes the place of the Lat. ti, as in negozio = negotium, palazzo = palatium, and is pronounced ts, 'or, preceded by n, de. In Eng. and in Fr. it represents the flat sibilant sound of which s is the sharp. But in Eng., as iu the vast majority of cases, s has always been employed to represent the flat sibilant sound as well as the sharp (e.g., in almost all plurals, as bones, cards, in words like cerise, etc.), there is a tendency to drop the use of z, except in a few individual words, such as size, prize. Many maintain the use of z iu words derived from the Greek, especially from verbs in iza, as 'baptize, and also in words formed on the analogy of these, as legalize; but even the advocates of this rule do not act on it consistently, and the mere English scholar is fairly puzzled. This is one of the points of English orthography most urgently calling for reform.