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A French historical writer and radical; born at Paris, May 23, 1814; died May 12, 1876. His best-known writings are: "Charlotte Corday" (1840); "The People's Gospel" (1840), portraying Christ as a revolutionist-he spent eight months in jail for this; "The Foolish Virgins", "The Martyr Virgins", "The Wise Virgins", (1841-42), in the interest of socialism. The "History of the Montagnards" (2 vols., 1847) and the "History of Liberty's Martyrs" (1851) were very popular. While banished from France he contributed to the Revue des Deux Mondes from London a series of studies on "England and English Life", afterward published in 5 vols. (1859-70).
By Charles Dudley Warner
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basidiomycota
- 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).