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See also:LAISANT, See also:CHARLES See also:ANNE (1841– ) , See also:French politician, was See also:born at See also:Nantes on the 1st of See also:November 1841, and was educated at the Ecole Polytechnique as a military engineer.
He defended the fort of Issy at the See also:siege of See also:Paris, and served in See also:Corsica and in See also:Algeria in 1873. In 1876 he resigned his See also:commission to enter the Chamber as See also:deputy for Nantes in the republican See also:interest, and in 1879 he became director of the See also:Petit Parisien. For alleged See also:libel on See also:General Courtot de See also:Cissey in this See also:paper he was heavily fined. In the Chamber he spoke chiefly on See also:army questions; and was chairman of a commission appointed to consider army legislation, resigning in 1887 on the refusal of the Chamber to See also:sanction the abolition of exemptions of any See also:kind. He then became an adherent of the revisionist policy of General See also:Boulanger and a member of the See also:League of Patriots. He was elected Boulangist deputy for the 18th Parisian See also:arrondissement in 1889. He did not seek re-See also:election in 1893, but devoted himself thenceforward to See also:mathematics, helping to make known in See also:France the theories of Giusto Bellavitis. He was attached to the See also:staff of the Ecole Polytechnique, and in 1903-1904 was See also:president of the French Association for the See also:Advancement of See also:Science.
In addition to his See also:political See also:pamphlets Pourquoi et comment je suis Boulangiste (1887) and L'Anarchie bourgeoise (1887), he published mathematical See also:works, among them Introduction a l'etude See also:des quarternions (1881) and Theorie et applications des equipollences (1887).
LAI-YANG, a See also:city in the See also:Chinese See also:province of Shan-tung, in 37° N., 120 55' E., about the See also:middle of the eastern See also:peninsula, on the See also:highway See also:running See also:south from Chi-fu to See also:Kin-Kia or Tingtsu See also:harbour. It is surrounded by well-kept walls of See also:great antiquity, and its See also:main streets are spanned by large pailous or monumental See also:arches, some dating from the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of the See also:emperor Tai-ting-ti of the Yuan See also:dynasty (1324). There are extensive suburbs both to the See also:north and south, and the See also:total See also:population is estimated at 50,000. The so-called See also:Ailanthus See also:silk produced by See also:Saturnia cynthia is See also:woven at Lai-yang into a strong fabric; and the manufacture of the See also:peculiar kind of See also:wax obtained from the la-shu or wax-See also:- TREE (0. Eng. treo, treow, cf. Dan. tree, Swed. Odd, tree, trd, timber; allied forms are found in Russ. drevo, Gr. opus, oak, and 36pv, spear, Welsh derw, Irish darog, oak, and Skr. dare, wood)
- TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM (1853- )
tree See also:insect is largely carried on in the vicinity.
End of Article: LAISANT, CHARLES ANNE (1841– )
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