GABLONZ, ablonts (Czech, Jablonec), Bohemia, town on the Neisse, 95 miles north east of Prague. It contains a gymnasium and several trade and professional schools. It is the chief seat of the glass and imitation jewelry manufacture. It has also woolen and cotton factories, hardware, papier mo.che and other paper goods factories. Pop. 29,600.
GABORIAU, Emile, French writer of detective stories: b. Saujon, Charente Inferieure, France, 9 Nov. 1835; d. Paris, 28 Sept. 1873. His early years were a succession of vicissitudes; the army, the law, and even the Church, were in turn the objects of his incon stant attentions till at last when he had already contributed to some of the smaller Parisian papers, he leaped into fame at a single bound with his story Lerouge' (1866), in the feuilleton to Le Pays. It was quickly followed by (Le Dossier 113' (1867) ; (Le Crime d'Orcival' (1868) ; Lecoq' (1869) ; 'Les Esclaves de Paris' (1869) ; 'La Vie Infernale) (1870) ; 'La Clique Doree' (1871) ; 'La Corde au Cou' (1873) ; 'L'Argent des Autres' (1874) ; and 'La Degringolade) (1876).
GABRIAC, Paul Joseph de Ca doine, MARQUIS DE, French diplomatist: b. Hei delberg, Baden, I March 1792; d. Paris, 12 June 1865. He was consul-general in New York in 1812-14; appointed Minister to Stockholm in 1823; and Minister to Brazil in 1826. While in Brazil he induced all the other states in South America to adopt the French maritime law. He was created a peer in 1841, and made a life senator in 1853. His publications include (The Question of Brazil) (1829); 'The Republics of South America Considered in Their Future' (1851); °King Pedro I, Notes and Personal Recollections' (1854).