Jacques**, sometimes called the French Titian, was born at Paris, A.D. 1600. After residing two years at Rome he went to Venice, where he studied assiduously the works of Titian, Tintoret, and Paul Veronese. He imitated the style of these masters with much success, and produced numerous pictures; but his masterpiece is the "Descent of the Holy Ghost," in the church of Notre Dame. He died at Paris in 1638.

**BLANCHE-Ferme, or Blank farm**, in ancient leases, a farm the rent of which was paid in silver, not in cattle.