Montefrio
From LoveToKnow 1911
MONTEFRIO, a town of southern Spain, in the province of Granada, on the river Bilano. Pop. (1900), 10,725. Montefrio is largely Moorish in character, and dominated by a Moorish castle. Being built midway between the Sierra de Priego and Sierra Parapanda, and commanding the open valley between these ranges, it became one of the chief frontier fortresses of the Moors in the 15th century. Its industries include manufactures of cotton stuffs, alcohol and soap.
Montegut, Jean Baptiste Joseph Emile (1825-1895), French critic, was born at Limoges on the 14th of June 1825. He began to write for the Revue des deux mondes in 1847, contributing between 1851 and 18J7 a series of articles on the English and American novel, and in 1857 he became chief literary critic of the review. Emile Montegut translated Essais de philosophie americaine (1850) from Emerson; Revolution de 1688 (2 vols. 1853) from Macaulay's History; and also produced the CEuvres completes (10 vols. 1868-1873) of Shakespeare. Among his numerous critical works are Ecrivains modernes d'Angleterre (3rd series, 1885-1892) and Heures de lecture d'un critique (1891), studies of John Aubrey, Pope, Wilkie Collins and Sir John Mandeville. Montegut died in Paris on the 11th of December 1895.
