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CAMUS

Volume 3 · 100 words · 1778 Edition

a person with a low flat nose, hollowed in the middle.

The Tartars are great admirers of camus beauties. Rubruquis observes, that the wife of the great Jenghiz Khan, a celebrated beauty, had only two holes for a nose.

Camus (John Peter), a French prelate born in 1582. He was author of a number of pious romances (the taste of his time), and other theological works, to the amount of 200 vols. His definition of politics is remarkable: *Ars non tamen regendi, quam fallendi, boniorem* "the art not so much of governing, as of deceiving mankind." He died in 1652.