MATHURIN FRANCOIS ADOLPHE DE LESCURE
\mˈaθjʊɹˌɪn fɹˈanswɑːɹ ˈadɒlf də lˈɛskjʊ͡ə], \mˈaθjʊɹˌɪn fɹˈanswɑːɹ ˈadɒlf də lˈɛskjʊə], \m_ˈa_θ_j_ʊ_ɹ_ˌɪ_n f_ɹ_ˈa_n_s_w_ɑː_ɹ ˈa_d_ɒ_l_f d_ə l_ˈɛ_s_k_j_ʊə]\
Definitions of MATHURIN FRANCOIS ADOLPHE DE LESCURE
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A French litterateur and historian; born at Bretenoux (Lot), in 1833; died at Clamart (Seine), May 6, 1892. Successively attached to the Ministry of State and the Senate, he acquired a unique reputation by a series of essays and monographs on the Revolutionary and other periods in French history. Among more than forty publications are: "Confessions of the Abbess de Chelles" (1863); "Marie Antoinette and her Family" (1865); "Mary Stuart" (1871); "Illustrious Mothers" (1881); "Love under the Terror" (1882); "Rivarol and French Society during the Revolution and Emigration" (1883), his best work, crowned by the Academy; "Chateaubriand" (1892); and numerous memoirs.
By Charles Dudley Warner
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- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).
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