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114 BOSSI BOSSUET of Inkerman, in the latter of which but for his succor the English would have been crushed by the Russians. As chief of the corps des- tined to cover the allied forces on the slope of the Tcheraaya, he constantly displayed quick- ness, vigilance, and activity, and took part in the storming of the Malakhoff, after which he was made a senator and a marshal. In 1858 he was appointed commander -of the S. W. military division, but, disabled by the wounds received at Sebastopol, he was obliged to re- frain from active duties. BOSSI, Giuseppe, an Italian painter, born at Busto-Arsizio in August, 1777, died in Milan, Dec. 15, 1815. He studied at the Brera acade- my and in Rome, and on his return to Milan became secretary of the academy of fine arts, and afterward president of that institution and of those of Venice and Bologna. In 1801 he won a first prize for a picture commemorating the conclusion of peace, and in 1805 he exhib- ited various works, the best of which was a large cartoon representing the Italian Parnassus, which is in the museum of Milan. For Eugene de Beauharnais he executed a celebrated copy of Leonardo da Vinci's Gena, and published in 1810, as the result of his investigations relating to this famous masterpiece, Libri quattro sul Cenacolo di Leonardo da Vinci. lie also par- ticipated in the biography of Leonardo da Vinci, and left an unfinished work on Lombard paint- ers and several poetical effusions. He greatly enlarged and improved the Brera museum and Ambrosian library, and in the latter was placed a monument to him, with a bass relief and a colossal bust by Oanova, executed by order of the academy. He was regarded as one of the most eminent painters of the modern Lombard school. BOSSI, Ginseppe Carlo Anrello, baron de, an Italian poet and diplomatist, born in Turin, Nov. 15, 1758, died in Paris, Jan. 20, 1823. The son of a Sardinian count, he acquired the title of baron in the French service. He produced several plays in his youth, studied law, and after a short banishment in 1781 was employed in the foreign ministry and in diplomacy. He was Sardinian minister plenipotentiary in St. Petersburg in 1797, when Paul I. on hearing of the Sardinian-French treaty sent him his pass- ports, after which he became very prominent as envoy to Napoleon, and finally, with Carlo Giulio and Carlo Botta, was one of the three ad- ministrators or triumvirs of Sardinia (called in France the three Charleses) during the unsettled period preceding the annexation to France. He joined the French service in 1805, and became prefect of the department of Ain, and after- ward of La Manche. His devotion to the em- peror during the hundred days caused him to be removed from office after the second resto- ration. It was mainly due to his influence that England, supported by Prussia, successfully in- terfered in Sardinia in behalf of the Waldenses. He was the first to give a dramatic fervor af- ter the manner of Pindar to the Italian ode. Among his lyrics, which have been collected in 3 volumes (Paris, 1799-1801 ; 2d ed., Lon- don, 181G), are VIndipendema americana (1785), La Olanda pacificata (in two cantos, 1788), and Oromasia (on the French revolution, 12 cantos, 1805-'12). BOSSI, Lnlgi, count, an Italian historian and archaeologist, born in Milan, Feb. 28, 1758, died there, April 10, 1835. He studied jurispru- dence and natural sciences in Pavia, and became Bonaparte's agent in Turin, and after the an- nexation of Sardinia to France keeper of the Italian archives. He was the author of over 80 works on archffiological, scientific, and his- torical subjects, including Storia delta Spagna (8 vols., 1821), htoria tfltalia (19 vols., 1819- '23), Introduzione olio studio delle arti del disegno, and a volume of dramas, besides con- tributions to periodicals and academical annals. He also published an elaborate edition in Ital- ian of Roscoe's "Life of Leo X." (12 vols., Milan, 1816-'17). BOSSIER, a N. W. parish of Louisiana, bor- dering on Arkansas, bounded E. and S. E. by Dauchite river and Bistineau lake, and S. W. and W. by Red river; area, l,066sq.m. ; pop. in!870, 12,675, of whom 3,505 were colored. Badeau lake is in this parish. The chief productions in 1870 were 287,660 bushels of Indian corn, 11,422 of sweet potatoes, and 13,506 bales of cotton. There were 1,553 horses, 1,564 mules and asses, 2,788 milch cows, 4,401 other cattle, 1,917 sheep, and 9,994 swine. Capital, Bellevue. BOSSl'ET, Jacques Benlgne, a French prelate, born at Dijon, Sept. 27, 1627, died in Paris, April 12, 1704. He came of a family of law- yers, received his early education at the Jesuit college of Dijon, and thence was removed to the college of Navarre in Paris, where he soon attracted attention by his rapid progress in learning and his eloquence. It was said that he had formed a matrimonial engagement with Mile, des Vieux, but that it was broken off in order that he might enter the church, though they never ceased to be friends, and he even- tually provided her with a country seat near Paris, where she spent the rest of her life, pro- longed - till nearly her 100th year. He was or- dained in 1652, spent some time under the in- fluence of St. Vincent de Paul at Saint Lazare, declined the directorship of the college of Na- varre (which he assumed, however, at a later period), and accepted the modest office of canon at Metz, relieving his arduous life of study and controversy with the Protestants by preaching occasionally in Paris. The sermons which he delivered there in 1659 created a deep impres- sion. He never repeated a sermon, and spoke with little preparation excepting a rough draft of the leading points of his discourse. His style was picturesque, dramatic, and at times abrupt; the flow of his language was easy, and his presence was magnetic. For many years, and especially from 1660 to 1C69, he was frequently summoned to Paris to preach the Lent and Advent series, and for occasional solemn!-