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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 251 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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town of See also:Russia, See also:capital of the See also:government of the same name, lies at the confluence of the Oka with the Orlik, on the See also:line of railway to the See also:Crimea, 238 M. S.S.W. from See also:Moscow. Pop. (1875) 45,000. (1900) 70,075. It was founded in 1566, but See also:developed slowly, and .had only a very few houses at the beginning of the 18th See also:century. The See also:cathedral, begun in 1794, was finished only in 1861. The town possesses a military gymnasium (See also:corps of cadets), a public library, and storehouses for See also:grain and See also:timber. The manufactures are rapidly increasing, and include See also:hemp-See also:carding and See also:spinning, rope-making, See also:flour-See also:mills and See also:candle factories. Orel is one of the See also:chief markets of central Russia for See also:corn, hemp, hempseed oil, and See also:tallow, exported; See also:metal wares, See also:tobacco, See also:kaolin, and See also:glass See also:ware are also exported, while See also:salt, groceries and manufactured goods are imported. O'RELL, MAX, the nom-de-plume of See also:PAUL BLOUET (1848-1903), See also:French author and journalist, who was See also:born in See also:Brittany in 1848. He served as a See also:cavalry officer in the Franco-See also:German See also:War, was captured at See also:Sedan, but was released in See also:time to join the Versaillist See also:army which overcame the See also:Commune, and was severely wounded during the second See also:siege of See also:Paris.

In 1872 he went to See also:

England as correspondent of several French See also:newspapers, and in 1876 became the very efficient French See also:master at St Paul's school, See also:London, retaining that See also:post until 1884. What induced him to leave was the brilliant success of his first See also:book, See also:John See also:Bull et son Ile, which in its French and See also:English forms was so widely read as to make his See also:pseudonym a See also:household word in England and See also:America. Several other volumes of a similar type dealing in a like spirit with See also:Scotland, America and See also:France followed. He married an Englishwoman, who translated his books. But the See also:main See also:work of the years between 1890 and 1900 was lecturing. Max O'Rell was a ready and amusing See also:speaker, and his easy manner and his humorous See also:gift made him very successful on the See also:platform. He lectured often in the See also:United See also:Kingdom and still more often in America. He died in Paris, where he was acting as correspondent of the New See also:York See also:Journal, on the 25th of May 1903.

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