a town of France, in Lower Bretagne, now the department of Finisterre, seated on the river Elhorn, 20 miles east of Brest. In an inn here is a well which ebbs and flows like the sea, but at contrary times. E. Long. 4. 13. N. Lat. 48. 25.

LANDGRAVE, (formed of the German land, "earth," and graff, or grave, "judge" or "count"); a name formerly given to those who executed justice in behalf of the emperors, with regard to the internal policy of the country. The title does not seem to have been used before the 11th century. These judges Landgrave were first appointed within a certain district of Germany: in process of time the title became hereditary, and these judges assumed the sovereignty of the several districts or counties over which they presided. Landgrave is now applied by way of eminence to those sovereign princes of the empire who possess by inheritance certain estates called landgraviates, and of which they receive the investiture of the emperor. There are four princes who have this title, viz. those of Thuringia, Hesse, Allace, and Leuchtenberg. There are also other landgraves, who are not princes but counts of the empire. See Count.