o for that pension of
six hundred livres which was so useful to him. The catholicity of his
taste is shown by his _De la lecture des vieux romans_ (pr. 1870), in
which he praises the _chansons de geste_, forgotten by his generation.
Chapelain refused many honours, and his disinterestedness in this and
other cases makes it necessary to receive with caution the stories of
Menage and Tallemant des Reaux, who assert that he was in his old age a
miser, and that a considerable fortune was found hoarded in his
apartments when he died on the 22nd of February 1674.

There is a very favourable estimate of Chapelain's merits as a critic
in George Saintsbury's _History of Criticism_, ii. 256-261. An
analysis of _La Pucelle_ is given in pp. 23-79 of Robert Southey's
_Joan of Arc_. See also _Les Lettres de Jean Chapelain_ (ed. P.
Tanuzey de Larroque, 1880-1882); _Lettres inedites ... a P.D. Huet_
(1658-1673, ed. by L.G. Pellissier, 1894); Julien Duchesne, _Les
Poemes epiques du XVIIe siecle_ (1870); the abbe A. Fabre, _Les
Ennemis de Chapelain_ (1888), _Chapelain et nos deux premieres
Academies_ (1890); and A. Muehlan,_ Jean Chapelain_ (1893).

FOOTNOTE:

[1] The last twelve cantos of _La Pucelle_ were edited (1882) from
the MS. with corrections and a preface in the author's autograph, in
the _Bibliotheque Nationale_, by H. Herluison. Another edition, by E.
de Molenes (2 vols.), was published in 1892.

CHAPEL-EN-LE-FRITH, a market town in the High Peak parliamentary
division of Derbyshire, England, 20 m. S.E. of Manchester, on the London
& North-Western and Midland railways. Pop. (1901) 4626. It lies in an
upland valley of the Peak district, the hills of which rise above 1200
ft. in its immediate vicinity. There are paper-works and ironworks, and
brewing is carried on. The foundation of the church of St Thomas of
Canterbury is attributed to the foresters of the royal forest or frith
of the Peak early in the 13th century; and from this the town took name.
After the defeat of the Scottish forces at Preston by Cromwell in 1648,
it is said that 1500 prisoners were confined in the church at
Chapel-en-le-Frith.

CHAPEL HILL, a town of Orange county, North Carolina, U.S.A., about 28
m. N.W. of Raleigh. Pop. (1900) 1099; (1910) 1149. It is served by a
branch of the Southern railway, connecting at University, 10 m. distant,
with the Greensboro & Goldsboro division. The town is best known as t