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SAMBHAR LAKE

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 113 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SAMBHAR See also:

LAKE , a See also:salt lake in See also:Rajputana, See also:India, on the See also:borders of the two states of See also:Jodhpur and See also:Jaipur. The See also:town of the same name has a railway station 53 M. N.E. from Ajmer: pop. (1901) 10,873. The See also:area of the lake when full is about 90 sq. m., but it usually dries up altogether in the hot See also:season. Since 1870 the See also:British See also:government has worked the salt under a See also:lease from the two states interested, supplying See also:great See also:part of N. and Central India. The See also:annual output averages about 126,000 tons, yielding a profit of more than See also:half a million See also:sterling. SAMBLANcAY, or SEMBLANCAY, a See also:French See also:noble See also:family of See also:Touraine, sprung from the See also:merchant class. The founder of the family was See also:JEAN DE See also:BEAUNE (d. c. 1489), treasurer of See also:Louis XI., who narrowly escaped See also:death for See also:conspiracy under See also:Charles VIII. His son, JACQUES DE BEAUNE, See also:baron de Samblangay, vicomte de See also:Tours, became See also:general of finances before 1497, and from 1518 was See also:superintendent of finances. Convicted of peculation in connexion with the supplies for the See also:army in See also:Italy, he was executed at See also:Montfaucon on the 9th of See also:August 1527.

His eldest son, See also:

MARTIN DE BEAUNE, who became See also:archbishop of Tours in 1520, died in the same See also:year as his See also:father. Another son, See also:GUILLAUME DE BEAUNE, general of finances under his father, and banished from 1527 to 1535, was the father of the famous See also:prelate, RENAUD DE BEAUNE (1527-1606), archbishop of See also:Bourges (1581) and of See also:Sens (1595). His efforts at pacification during the See also:wars of See also:religion culminated in the See also:conversion of See also:Henry IV., and it was he who presided at the ceremony of the See also:king's See also:abjuration of Protestantism on the 25th of See also:July 1593. Renaud was one of the most famous orators of his See also:time, and some of his productions have come down to us, as well as his See also:Reformation de l'universite de See also:Paris (1605 and 1667). A less See also:honourable descendant of Jacques de Beaune was See also:CHARLOTTE DE BEAUNE-SAMBLANQAY (c.1550-1617), a courtesan whom See also:Catherine de See also:Medici employed to discover the secrets of her courtly enemies. She counted among her lovers and dupes the king of See also:Navarre (Henry. IV.), the duc d'See also:Alencon (Henry III.), Henry I., duc de See also:Guise and others. The duc de Guise was killed when leaving her apartments in the See also:early See also:morning of See also:Christmas See also:Day 1588. She was married early in See also:life to See also:Simon de Fizes, baron de Sauves, a secretary of See also:state, and again in 1584 to See also:Francois de la Tremoille, See also:marquis de Noirmoutiers, by whom she had a son, Louis, 1st duc de Noirmoutiers, a ducal See also:line which became See also:extinct in 1733. Charlotte died on the 3oth of See also:September 1617.

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