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See also:LEANDRE, See also:CHARLES LUCIEN (1862- ) , See also:French caricaturist and painter, was See also:born at Champsecret (See also:Orne), and studied See also:painting under See also:Bin and See also:Cabanel. From 1887 he figured among the exhibitors of the See also:Salon, where he showed numerous portraits and genre pictures, but his popular fame is due to his comic drawings and caricatures. The See also:series of the " See also:Gotha See also:des souverains," published in Le Rire, placed him in the front See also:rank of See also:modern caricaturists. Besides his contributions to Le Rire, Le See also:Figaro and other comic See also:journals, he published a series of albums: Nocturnes, Le Muse des souverains, and See also:Paris et la See also:province. Leandre produced admirable See also:work in See also:lithography, and designed many memorable posters, such as the "Yvette See also:Guilbert." " See also:Les nouveaux maries," " See also:Joseph Prudhomme," " Les Lutteurs," and " La Femme au chien." He was created a See also:knight of the See also:Legion of See also:Honour.
LEAP-See also:YEAR (more properly known as bissextile), the name given to the year containing 366 days. The astronomers of See also:Julius See also:Caesar, 46 B.C., settled the See also:solar year at 365 days 6 See also:hours. These hours were set aside and at the end of four years made a See also:day which was added to the See also:fourth year. The See also:English name for the bissextile year is an allusion to the result of the inter-position of the extia day; for after the 29th of See also:February a date " leaps over " the day of the See also:week on which it would fall in See also:ordinary years. Thus a birthday on the loth of See also:June, a See also:Monday, will in the next year, if a leap-year, be on the loth of June,' a Wednesday. Of the origin of the See also:custom for See also:women to woo, not be wooed, during leap-year no satisfactory explanation has ever been offered. In 1288 a See also:law was enacted in See also:Scotland that " it is statut and ordaint that during the See also:rein of hir maist blissit Megeste, for ilk yeare knowne as lepe yeare, ilk mayden ladye of bothe highe and love estait shall hae liberte to bespeke ye See also:man she likes, albeit he refuses to taik hir to be his lawful wyfe, he shall be mulcted in ye sum ane pundis or less, as his estait may be; except and awis gif he can make it appeare that he is betrothit ane ither woman he then shall be See also:free." A few years later a like law was passed in See also:France, and in the 15th See also:century the custom was legalized in See also:Genoa and See also:Florence.
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