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PORTO NOVO

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PORTO NOVO , a See also:town of See also:British See also:India, on the Coromandel See also:coast in the See also:South See also:Arcot See also:district of See also:Madras. Pop. (19o1), 13,712. The See also:English began trading here in 1683, when they found both the Danes and the Portuguese already established. The See also:place is chiefly famous for the See also:battle in See also:July 1781, in which See also:Sir See also:Eyre See also:Coote with 8000 men defeated Hyder See also:Ali with 6o,000 and saved the Madras See also:presidency. In 183o an See also:attempt, finally unsuccessful mainly owing to the lack of See also:fuel, was made to See also:smelt See also:iron from the or-as found in the vicinity. PORTO-RICHE, GEORGES DE (1849- ), See also:French dramatist, was See also:born at See also:Bordeaux. When he was twenty his pieces in See also:verse began to be produced at the Parisian theatres; he also wrote some books of verse which met with a favourable reception, but these See also:early See also:works were not reprinted. In 1898 he published See also:Theatre d'amour, which contained four of his best pieces, La See also:Chance de Francoise, L'Infidele, Amoureuse, Le Passe. The See also:title given to this collection indicates the difference between the plays of Porto-Riche and the See also:political or sociological pieces of many of his contemporaries. In Germaine, the passionate and exacting heroine of Amoureuse, Mme See also:Rejane found one of her best parts. In See also:Les Malefilatres (Odeon, 1904), also a See also:drama of See also:passion, the characters are See also:drawn from the working classes.

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