BOUILLON, IIENRI DE LA Torn Due de (1S5S-1033). A French general, at first known as Vicomte de Turenne. lie became a Calvinist and partisan of henry of Navarre, who. when King, gate him the hand and estate of Char lotte de La Narek. the heiress of the Duchy of Bouillon. On the night im which he was to be married, he suddenly left his prospective bride, and stormed the fortress of Stenay, then held be the Army of Lorraine. Soon afterwards he was made marshal of France, and intrusted with two diplomatic missions to England, Holland, and Germany. Compromised in the Biron conspiracy, lie was obliged to take refuge in Geneva in 1603, but became reconciled to the King in 1606. After the assassination of Henry 1V., he was one of the Council of the Regency, and was alter nately for and against the Queen. The Assembly of La appointed him of the Reformed forces, but he refused the appoint nnent and retired to Sedan, where lie established a college and valuable library. His second
wife, a daughter of Prince of Orange, left him two sons, the younger of whom was the celebrated 3larshal Turenne.
buu'ye', JEAN (17 G3 1S4?). A French dramatist. During the Revo lutionary period he was lrst a judge, then a public prosecutor in Tours, and later lie was palled to I'nris to aid in the estibhisIjinciat of primary schools throughout Francc. Ile retired from public life in 1799. The sentimental char acter of most of his works earned for hint the name of `popte lacrymal.' The most noteworthy among them are: Picrrc is grand, a comic opera, for which i (:''try wrote the L'abbr de Les deu.r jouriu cs, sct to node by ('herubini; h'aneluni: and .Madame di' firrignr. (If his writings for the young, the Comes of ferts auv enfants de France, rontes d ma fillr, and ('onscils d ma flue ( 1S09), have passed through several and have been triuus lated into several languages.