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as real property, and is of great importance
in the creation of trusts.

Perpignan, chief tn. of French dep. Pyre-
nees Oricntalcs, stands on river Tet, 7 m. from
the Mediterranean. A fortress of great
strength, it commands the passage from Spain
across the E. Pyrenees. Perpignan did not
become French till 1642, and is still half-
Spanish, half-Moorish in appearance, while
its people resemble those of Catalonia, It
has a 14th-century cathedral, and from 1349
to the Revolution had a university. Trade in
Roussillon red wine, brandy, cork, silk, and
wool; p.68,835.

Perrault, Charles (1628-1703); French
writer, born at Paris. He is best known by
his prose fairy tales, published in Paris in
1697 under the title Histoires on Conies du
Temps Passe. A frontispiece bears the words
'Contes de Ma Mere 1'Oye' (Tales of Mother
Goose).

Perrault, Claude (1613-88), French ar-
chitect, brother of Charles Perrault, was born
in Paris. His greatest work was the colon-
nade of the Louvre, one of the most beauti-
ful buildings of the i7th century. He was
also entrusted with the erection of the Na-
tional Observatory at Paris, and assisted in
the decoration of Versailles.

Perrin, Bernadotte (1847-1920), Ameri-
can scholar, born in Goshen, Conn., and
graduated (1868) at Yale. Besides his nu-
merous contributions to philological periodi-
cals he edited texts of Caesar's Civil War
(1882), Homer's Odyssey, books i-viii. (1899-
94), and the Classical Series in Twentieth
Century Text-Books, with J. H. Wright and
A. F. West, and a translation with introduc-
tion and commentary of Themistocles and
Aristides in Plutarch's Greek Lives (1901).

Perry, Bliss (1860- ), American edu-
cator and author, was born at Williamstown,
Mass. In 1899 he accepted the editorship of
the Atlantic Monthly, In 1906 he accepted,
in addition, the professorship of belles let-
tres at Harvard. Mr. Perry edited editions of
Scott's Woodstock and Ivanhoe, and a series
of Little Masterpieces, and he published three
novels. He also wrote A Study of Prose Fic-
tion (1902), Walt Whitman, a biographical
and critical study (1906), A Study of Poetry
(1920), And Gladly Teach (1935), etc.

Perry, James De Wolf (1871- ),bishop,
was born in Germantowfc, Pa., studied at
Cambridge Theological School, entered the
ministry in 1896. He was rector of Christ
Church, Fitchburg, Mass., 1897-1904, and of
St. Paul's, New Haven, Conn., 1904-1911. He

was then consecrated bishop of Rhode Island,
and was elected primate of the Protestant
Episcopal Church in America in 1930.

Perry, Matthew Calbraith (1794-1858),
American naval officer, born at Newport, R.
I. In July, 1813, during the War of 1812,
he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant
and from 1815 to 1817 he commanded a mer-
chant vessel. He then re-entered the navy,
and in 1819-20 was first lieutenant of the
Cyane, which convoyed to Africa the first
shipload of negroes sent out by the American
Colonization Society. He spent the years
I833-43 on shore duty, for much of the time
at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, of which he
was commandant in 1841-3. He here organ-
ized the Brooklyn Naval Lyceum and made
valuable contributions to the development of
the U. S. steam navy. In 1837 he was raised
to the rank of captain, then the highest in
the U. S. Navy. Perry was made special en-
voy 'of the U. S. to Japan in 1852, and in
1854 he returned to Japan and negotiated a
treaty by which the U. S. gained permission
to obtain wood, coal, and necessary stores
and provisions needed by her ships in Japa-
nese waters, and for her vessels to anchor in
the ports of Shimoda and Hakodat. The ne-
gotiation of this treaty was Perry's greatest
achievement, and is an event of the greatest
importance in the history of Japan; the trea-
ty marks the first step in the opening of Ja-
pan to foreign commerce and residence. After
his return Perry prepared his Narrative of
Ihe Expedition of an American Squadron to
the China Seas and Japan (3 vols. 1856). He
died in New York City, Mar. 4, 1858.

Perry, Oliver Hazard (1785-1819), Am-
erican naval officer, born on Aug. 23, 1785,
at South Kingston, R. I. He served in the
Tripolitan War, first on the frigate Adams
(1802-3) and afterwards, as a lieutenant, on
the Constellation (1804-5); and in 1807-10
he commanded a flotilla of seventeen gun-
boats on the Newport Station. Soon after
the outbreak of the War of 1812 he was again
placed in command of a flotilla of gunboats
and in March, 1813, having been raised to
the rank of captain, he was made master-com-
mandant, and was ordered to superintend,
under the direction of Com. Chauncey, the
constructing and equipping of a fleet for
service on Lake Erie. The squadron was
ready for service by July 10 but the lack
of men lorig kept Perry in the harbor and
he did not sail from Erie until Aug. 12.

On Sept. 10, in the famous battle of Lake
Erie, fought off Put-in-Bay, be defeated the