MONTCALM DE SAINT

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MONTCALM DE SAINT V$RAN, LOUIS JOSEPH, MARQUIS DE (1712-1759), French soldier, was born at Condiac near Nimes on the 28th of

February

FEBRUARY

1712,2 and entered the army in 1721, becoming captain in 1727. He saw active service under Berwick on the Rhine in 1733, and in 1743, having become a colonel of infantry, he served in Bohemia under Maillebois, Broglie and Belleisle. He became intimate with Francois de Chevert (16951769), the gallant defendgr of Prague, and in Italy repeatedly distinguished himself, being promoted brigadier in 1747, shortly before the disastrous action of Exilles, in which he was severely wounded. In 1749 he received the colonelcy of a cavalry

regiment

REGIMENT (from Late Latin regimentum, rule, regere, to rule, govern, direct)

, and in 1756, with the rank of marechal de camp, he was sent to command the French troops in Canada. In the third year of his command, having been meanwhile promoted

lieutenant

LIEUTENANT

-general, he defended Quebec (q.v.) against General Wolfe. The celebrated siege ended with the battle
2 A younger brother,

Jean

JEAN

Louis Pierre (or Philippe) Elizabeth Montcalm de Condiac (1719-1726), was a child of astonishing precocity. At the age of four he read Latin; at six he understood Greek and Hebrew. It was for his benefit that the bureau typographiquea mechanism for teaching children

reading

READING

, writing and arithmetic at the same time that it amused themwas contrived by their tutor Louis Dumas (1676-1744).
of the Heights of Abraham (Sept. 12, 1759), in which Wolfe was killed and Montcalm mortally wounded. The French

commander

COMMANDER

died two days later, while the place, with which his name and Wolfe's are for ever associated, was still in the hands of the garrison.
also Parkman's Montcalm and Wolfe. The

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

French authorities are Pinard, Chronologie militaire, v. 616 (1762); Montcalm et le Canada francais, by F. Joubleau (Paris, 1874) and C. de Bonne-

chose

CHOSE (Fr. for " thing ")

(Paris, 1877); Le Moine, La Memoire de Montcalm vengee (Montreal, 1889).
MONTCEAU-LES-MINES, a town of

east

EAST
EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

-central France, in the department of Saone-et-Loire, 14 M. S. by W. of Le Creusot on the Paris-Lyon railway. Pop. (1906), town, 9701; commune, 26,305. Its importance is due chiefly to its position as the centre of the Blanzy coal basin, on the Canal du Centre, which, is connected with the coalfield by numerous lines of railway. Its manufacturing establishments include weaving and spinning factories, iron and copper foundries, and engineering

work

WORK

-shops.

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