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BAREGES BARERE DE VIEUZAO 309 nuns of St. Augustine ; the barefooted Car- melites of Avila, male and female, in Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Germany, and India ; the barefooted Trinitarians, in Spain, Italy, France, Germany, Poland, Hungary, and Bo- hemia ; nuns of St. Francis of the stricter ob- servance, established in France in 1593, and afterward endowed with the convent of Picpus in Paris, whence they are often called leg Pic- pus, and the Passionists. BAREGES, a French watering place in the department of Hautes-Pyr6nees, 25 m. S. of Tarbes, situate in the Bastan valley, 4,000 feet above the sea, between two chains of moun- tains. The village consists of one long street on the Gave de Bastan, and forms part of a commune with only about 600 permanent in- habitants, who escape from the snow and ava- lanches during the winter to the town of Luz. The fine silk crfepe tissue first took its name from Bar6ges, though chiefly manufac- tured at Bagneres de Bigorre. During summer and autumn Bar6ges can accommodate about 800 invalids and visitors. The springs rise near the junction of the slate rock with the granite, and are celebrated for curing ulcers, rheumatism, scrofula, tumors, and gunshot and other wounds. Their principal ingredients are sulphuret of sodium, carbonate, muriate, and sulphate of soda, azotic and sulphuretted hydrogen gases, and animal matter. Their temperature varies from 73 to 120 F. They have been known since the 16th century, but became fashionable only at the end of the 17th, after they had been successfully employed by Madame de Maintenon for the cure of the crippled duke de Maine, Louis XIV.'s natural son. A new bath house was erected by the French government in 1864, and the springs are described in Dr. Macpherson's "Baths and Wells of Europe " (1869). Bareges is the seat of a famous military hospital. I! U!i:iLLK, Jean Francois, abbe", a French the- ologian, born at Valentine, Haute-Garonne, in 1813. He received a superior education and became honorary canon of the dioceses of Toulouse and Lyons, and afterward director of a school at SorSze. He has published His- toire de Saint Thomas d'Aquin (1846; 4th ed., 1862), and La vie du caur (1856 ; 3d ed., 1863) ; and he has translated several works of Balmes, the (Enures completes de Louis de Grenade (21 vols., 1861-'6), and the (Euvres completes de Saint Jean Chrysostome (10 vols., 1864-'7, and 4 vols., without the original text, 1866-'7). The French academy in 1868 conferred one of the Monthyon prizes upon his translation of the Homelies in the 3d volume of the last-men- tioned edition. BAREILY, a city of the Northwest Provinces of Hindostan, capital of a district of the same name, in the region of Rohilcund, on a branch of the Ganges, in lat. 28 23' N. and Ion. 79 26' E., 122 m. E. by S. of Delhi ; pop. 92,000, two thirds of whom are Hindoos. It was ceded to the British in 1801. The officials live in a citadel outside the town. The inhabitants are engaged in the manufacture of swords, daggers, carpets, saddles, housings, embroidery, jewelry, brass wares, and cabinet work. In the last two of these branches of manufacture they particularly excel. The sepoy garrison mutinied May 31, 1857, and killed every Euro- pean that fell in their way. The place was recovered by Sir Colin Campbell in the follow- ing year. BAREBiTZ, Willem, a Dutch navigator, died I June 20, 1597. He was appointed chief pilot of the vessel fitted out by the city of Am- sterdam in the expedition which sailed from Holland June 5, 1594, in search of a passage to China and India northward of Asia. The ship in which Barentz sailed explored Nova Zembla, sailed to the N. E. extremity of the island, reaching lat. 77, and then turned back (Aug. 1). The next year the government of Holland equipped a second expedition of seven vessels, spending half the summer in loading them with rich merchandise for the East. Barentz was appointed head pilot of the whole expedition, but it started so late in the season that nothing of importance was accomplished. The city of Amsterdam despatched a third expedition, consisting of two ships, under Ja- cobus van Heemskerk and Jan Cornelisz Ryp, May 18, 1596. Barentz was the pilot on one of them. The two vessels visited Spitzbergen together, and afterward parted company. Ba- rentz's vessel sailed in the direction of Nova Zembla, and succeeded in doubling its N. E. extremity, but then encountered ice, and be- ing unable to continue its voyage eastward, turned southward Aug. 25. On Sept. 1 it was frozen up in Ice Haven, and the crew were forced to spend the winter there " in great cold, poverty, misery, and grief," and with no sun from Nov. 4 to Jan. 24. The crew, with the exception of two who had died, quitted Ice Haven June 14, 1597, in two open boats, and Barentz died a few days afterward. The sur- vivors after two and a half months reached the N. E. shore of Lapland, and were there rescued by Cornelizs. BARERE DE VIKIZAC, Bertram!, a French revolutionist, born at Tarbes, Sept. 10, 1755, died in January, 1841. He was educated for the law. In 1789 he was elected a deputy to the states general, and published a journal, Le point dujour, in which he gave an account of the proceedings of that body. He took part in nearly every debate, always being foremost in the popular movements of the time. On the death of Mirabeau he was chosen to de- liver the panegyric. On the adjournment of the assembly he was appointed one of the judges of the tribunal de cassation. In 1792 he was elected a member of the convention, where he voted for the immediate death of the king. He was elected a member of the committee of public safety in 1793, and at first avoided committing himself to either party ; but when the ascendancy of the Jacobins was