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See also:BOURRIT, MARC See also:THEODORE (1739-1819) , Swiss traveller
and writer, came of a See also:family which was of See also:French origin but.had taken See also:refuge at See also:Geneva for reasons connected with See also:religion. His See also:father was a watchmaker there, and he himself was educated in his native See also:city. He was a See also:good artist and etcher, and also a pastor, so that by See also:reason of his See also:fine See also:voice and love of See also:music he was made (1768) See also:precentor of the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of St See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter (the former See also:cathedral) at Geneva. This See also:post enabled him to devote himself to the exploration of the See also:Alps, for which he had conceived a See also:great See also:passion ever since an ascent (1761) of the Voirons, near Geneva. In 1775 he made the first ascent of the Buet (10,201 ft.) by the now usual route from the See also:Pierre a See also:Berard, on which the great See also:flat See also:rock known as the Table au Chantre still preserves his memory. In 1784–1785 he was the first traveller to See also:attempt the ascent of Mont See also:Blanc (not conquered till 1786), but neither then nor later (1788) did he succeed in reaching its See also:summit. On the other See also:hand he reopened (1787) the route over the See also:Col du Geant (11,o6o ft.), which had fallen into oblivion, and travelled also among the mountains of the See also:Valais, of the Bernese Oberland, &c. He received a See also:pension from See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XVI., and was named the historiographe See also:des Alpes by the See also:emperor See also:Joseph II., who visited him at Geneva. His last visit to See also:Chamonix was in 1812. His writings are composed in a naive, sentimental and rather pompous See also:style, but breathe throughout a most passionate love for the Alps, as wonders of nature, and not as See also:objects of scientific study, His See also:chief See also:works are the Description des glacieres de Savoye, 1773 (See also:English See also:translation, See also:Norwich, 1775-1776), the Description des Alpes pennines et rhetiennes (2 vols., 1781) (reprinted in 1783 under the See also:title of Nouvelle Description des vallees de glace, and in 1785, with additions, in 3 vols., under the name of Nouvelle Description des glacieres), and the Descriptions des cols ou passages des Alpes, (2 vols., 1803), while his Itineraire de Geneve, See also:Lausanne et Ckamouni, first published in 1791, went through several See also:editions in his lifetime. (W. A.
B.
End of Article: BOURRIT, MARC THEODORE (1739-1819)
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