m, until he fell into an ambuscade and was
mortally wounded. He died among his followers in February 1794.
Cottereau's brothers also perished in the war, with the exception of
Rene, who lived until 1846. Royalist authors have made of Cottereau a
hero and martyr, titles to which his claim is not established. After the
death of Cottereau, the chief leaders of the Chouans were Georges
Cadoudal (q.v.) and a man who went by the name of Jambe d'Argent. For
several months the Chouans continued their petty warfare, which was
disgraced by many acts of ferocity and rapine; in August 1795 they
dispersed; but they were guilty of several conspiracies up to 1815. (See
also VENDEE.)

See the articles in _La Revolution francaise_, vol. 29, _La
Chouannerie dans la Manche_; vol. 32, _La Chouannerie dans l'Eure_;
vol. 40, _La Chouannerie dans le Morbihan (1793-1794)_; Sarot, _Les
Tribunaux repressifs ordinaires de la Manche en matiere politique
pendant la premiere Revolution_ (Paris, 1881), 4 vols.; Th. de
Closmadeux, _Quiberon (1795), Emigres et Chouans, commissions
militaires, interrogations et jugements_ (Paris, 1898), the only
authority on the celebrated affair of Quiberon; E. Daudet, _La
Police et les Chouans dans le Consulat et I'Empire, 1800-1815_
(Paris, 1895). Also the works of Ch. L. Chessin mentioned under
VENDEE.

CHRESMOGRAPHION (from Gr. [Greek: chresmos], oracle, and [Greek:
graphein], to write), an architectural term sometimes given to the
chamber between the pronaes and the cella in Greek temples where oracles
were delivered.

CHRESTIEN, FLORENT (1541-1596), French satirist and Latin poet, the son
of Guillaume Chrestien, an eminent French physician and writer on
physiology, was born at Orleans on the 26th of January 1541. A pupil of
Henri Estienne, the Hellenist, at an early age he was appointed tutor to
Henry of Navarre, afterwards Henry IV., who made him his librarian.
Brought up as a Calvinist, he became a convert to Catholicism. He was
the author of many good translations from the Greek into Latin
verse,--amongst others, of versions of the _Hero and Leander_ attributed
to Musaeus, and of many epigrams from the Anthology. In his translations
into French, among which are remarked those of Buchanan's _Jephthe_
(1567), and of Oppian _De Venatione_ (1575)> he is not so happy, being
rather to be praised for fidelity to his original than for excellence of
style. His