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NOAILLES NOBLE 471 revocation of the edict of Nantes in 1685. In 1689 he commanded the French army in sup- port of the revolted Catalans, and in 1694 de- feated the Spanish royalists. III. Adrien Mau- rice, duke de, and marshal of France, son of the preceding, born in Paris, Sept. 29, 1678, died there, June 24, 1766, He married a niece of Mme. de Maintenon, served for many years in the army in Spain, and in 1715, on the death of Louis XIV., became a member of the council of regency. As president of the council of finance, he introduced great reforms, compelled the farmers of the public revenue to make restitution of dishonestly acquired funds, and opposed the schemes of John Law, in consequence of which he lost his financial office ; and in 1722, through the enmity of Cardinal Dubois, he was dismissed from the council of regency. He resumed military ser- vice in 1733, captured Worms, and won the rank of marshal at the siege of Philippsburg (1734). During the war of the Austrian succession he was defeated at Dettingen, in 1743, by George II. of England. As ambassador to Spain in 1746 he effected a reconciliation between the two courts, and subsequently he was a member of the cabinet. His Memoires were published by the abbe Millot in 1777 (6 vols. 12mo). IV. Louis Marie, viscount de, grandson of the preceding, born in Paris, April 17, 1756, died in Havana in January, 1804. His father was Philippe de Noailles (1715-'94), who became marshal under the title of duke de Mouchy. He fought gallantly in several engagements during the American war of independence, and subsequently espoused the cause of the French revolution of 1789, proposing the re- nunciation by the nobles of all their feudal privileges. After the flight of Louis XVI. to Varennes he served on the northern fron- tier, but on the imprisonment of the king he resigned his commission and retired to Eng- land. Returning to France after the 18th Bru- maire, he was sent as brigadier general to San- to Domingo, and was mortally wounded in cap- turing an English sloop of war near Havana. V. Paul, duke de, born in Paris, Jan. 4, 1802. The offspring of a younger branch of the fam- ily, he inherited the title of duke from his great-uncle, who died in 1823. He took his seat in the chamber of peers in 1827, and kept it after the revolution of 1830, though an ad- herent of the exiled Bourbons. In 1848 he retired to private life. In 1849 he was elected to the French academy as successor of Cha- teaubriand. His principal work is Histoire de Madame de Maintenon (4 vols., 1848-'58). VI. Emmanuel Yietnrnien Henri, marquis de, son of the preceding, born at the chateau of Main- tenon, department of Eure-et-Loir, in 1830. He married a Polish lady, and published La Pologne et ses frontieres (1863), and Henri de Valois et la Pologne en 1572 (3 vols., 1867), for which the academy gave a prize. He was min- ister at Washington from July, 1872, to Febru- ary, 1874, when he was transferred to Rome. NOBLE. I. A S. E. county of Ohio, drained by Wills, Seneca, and Duck creeks ; area, about 400 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 19,949. It has an undulating and hilly surface, and is well tim- bered and fertile. It contains quarries of build- ing stone and extensive coal mines. The chief productions in 1870 were 179,715 bushels of wheat, 853,950 of Indian corn, 172,210 of oats, 61,771 of potatoes, 19,667 tons of hay, 2,304,- 557 Ibs. of tobacco, 247,534 of wool, 510,963 of butter, and 69,643 gallons of sorghum mo- lasses. There were 7,023 horses, 5,822 milch cows, 9,999 other cattle, 64,229 sheep, and 18,167 swine; 4 flour mills, 6 saw mills, and 6 woollen mills. Capital, Sarahsville. II. A N. E. county of Indiana, drained by Elkhart and Tippecanoe rivers ; area, 430 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 20,389. The Grand Rapids and Indi- ana railroad passes through it. The chief pro- ductions in 1870 were 438,075 bushels of wheat, 224,958 of Indian corn, 139,624 of oats, 77,264 of potatoes, 19,171 tons of hay, 107,236 Ibs. of wool, 430,240 of butter, and 39,578 of maple sugar. There were 6,067 horses, 5,456 milch cows, 6,625 other cattle, 30,464 sheep, and 14,259 swine; 17 manufactories of carriages and wagons, 7 of furniture, 3 of iron castings, 4 of curried leather, 9 of saddlery and harness, 9 flour mills, 21 saw mills, and 2 woollen mills. Capital, Albion. NOBLE, Louis Legrand, an American clergy- man, born in Otsego co., N". Y., Sept. 26, 1811. He graduated at the Episcopal theological sem- inary in New York in 1840, and was rector of a parish in North Carolina till 1844, and after- ward at Catskill, N. Y. As literary executor of Thomas Cole, he published a memoir, of that artist, with selections from his writings (12mo, New York, 1853). In 1854 he took charge of a church in Chicago, in 1858 of one in Jersey City, and in 1874 became professor of the English language and literature at St. Stephen's college on the Hudson, Annandale, N. Y. In 1860 he made an arctic journey with the paint- er Church, and published "After Icebergs with a Painter" (12mo, 1861). He has also pub- lished a number of poems, including "Home," delivered at Trinity college, Hartford, in 1857. Some of his poems have been collected in "The Hours, and other Poems" (1857). NOBLE, Mark, an English clergyman, born about the middle of the 18th century, died at Banning in Kent, May 26, 1827. In 1784 George III. gave him the living of Banning. He published "Memoirs of the Protectorate House of Cromwell " (Birmingham, 1784; 2d ed., London, 1787) ; " A Genealogical History of the Royal Families of Europe " (1781) ; " An Historical Genealogy of the Royal House of Stuart" (1795); "Lives of the English Regi- cides" (1798) ; and a continuation of Granger's " Biographical History of England," bringing it down from the revolution to the close of the reign of George I. NOBLE, Samuel, an English clergyman, born in London, March 4, 1779, died there, Aug. 27,