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beehive (iou) and Calonne, Charles-Alexandre de (sh)


beehive (iou)



beehive noun. ME.
[from BEE noun1 + HIVE noun.]
An artificial habitation for bees, traditionally of thick straw work in the shape of a dome, but now usu. a wooden box containing the combs on wooden slides. ME.
b. fig. A busy place etc. E17.
the Beehive, (the name of) a star-cluster in the constellation Cancer. Also called Praesepe. M19.
A hat or hairstyle having the shape of a traditional beehive. E20.
Comb.: beehive-hat a hat shaped like a traditional beehive; beehive tomb a dome-shaped tomb cut into a hillside, distinctive of Mycenaean Greece.

Calonne, Charles-Alexandre de (sh)




born Jan. 20, 1734, Douai, France
died Oct. 29, 1802, Paris

French politician.

He served as intendant of Metz (1768) and Lille (1774), and his financial genius led to his appointment as controller General of finance (1783). He soon discovered that major reforms were necessary to save France from bankruptcy. His efforts precipitated the governmental crisis that led to the French Revolution. After the Revolution began, he devoted himself to the cause of counterrevolution from his exile in England.