YVETOT, ev-tb France, a town in the de partment of Seine•Inferieure, on an elevated plain, 23 miles northwest of Rouen. It has manufactures of calico, hosiery, linen, leather and baskets. Antiquaries have been much puz zled by an ancient chronicle, and still earlier edict, which gave the title of king to the lords of Yvetot. This edict was formally abrogated in 1681. 'Le Roi d'Yvetot.) the well-known song by Berartger, translated by Thackeray. was a satire on Napoleon, which has immortalized the ancient dignity. It was the scene of the defeat of the troops of the League by Henry IV in 1592. Pop. about 7,133.
YVON, 6-y66, Adolphe. French historical painter: b. Esdviller, Moselle, 1, Feb. 1817; d. Paris, 11 Sept. 1893. He studied under Paul Delaroche, traveled in Russia in 1843, and brought back with him a series of designs ex hibited in Paris in 1847-48. He obtained the medal of honor at the Salon of 1857; 10 years later he became an officer of the Legion of Honor. In 1855 he was commissioned by the French government to accompany the army to the Crimea. Among his most important works are 'The Remorse of Judas' (1846); 'The Battle of Kolilcova) (1850); 'The First Consul Descending the Alps' (1853) ; 'Marshal Ney Supporting the Rear Guard in Russia' (1853) ; 'The Seven Deadly Sins,' designed after Dante (1855); The Capture of the Malakoff' (1859) 'Battle of Solfenno' (1861); and an allegorical picture of 'The United States of America' (1870), executed for A. T. Stewart. He was an artist of remarkable power and holds a prominent place among the historical and re ligious painters of France.
twenty-sixth of the letters of the English alphabet, is a vocal or sonant consonant, as distinguished from s.
which is the corresponding fricative sibilant. It was adopted into the Latin from the Greek alphabet in the time of Cicero: in the Latin alphabet, as in ourit holds the last place; but in the Greek is sixth, and in the Pbcenician, Hebrew and other Semitic alphabets seventh. Its earliest Phcenician and Greek form was I. The name of the Greek letter is Zeta, that of the Phoenician Zayin. The Greek name is either derived from that of the Phcenician letter Zadc, or has been assimilated to Eta and Theta. In German and Italian it represents the sound of ts; in our language and in French it represents one simple sound. In Latin it was used only in words derived from the Greek. The exact value of zeta in Greek is riot known with certainty; but beyond any Question it stood for a double sound, not a simple sound like our r; this is conclusively in ferred from Aristotle's remark that xi (0, Psi ( 47 ), and seta (C ) are like in sound; and the inference is strengthened by the fact that in Greek prosody a vowel short by nature is made long by position when it occurs next before the zeta. The sound of the zeta, however, is in doubt — whether it was d: or td or both. The name of Z in Great Britain is red, hi the United States :'e. Z is often related to palatal sounds as zealous, jealous. etc. Though s is the alphabetic representative of the sonant sibi lant, the special r-sound is in English and many other languages oftener represented by s than by ,z. In azure and some other words s is the sunant corresponding to zit. See ALPHABET.