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city, seat (1838) of Jefferson county, southeastern Texas, U.S., at the head of navigation on the Neches River (an arm of the Sabine-Neches Waterway), 85 miles (137 km) east-northeast of Houston. With Port Arthur and Orange, it forms the “Golden Triangle” petrochemical and industrial complex.

In 1824 Noah Tevis founded the settlement of Tevis Bluff; in 1835 he sold 50 acres (20 hectares) of land for a town site…

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>	Beaumont city, seat (1838) of Jefferson county, southeastern Texas, U.S., at the head of navigation on the Neches River (an arm of the Sabine-Neches Waterway), 85 miles (137 km) east-northeast of Houston. With Port Arthur and Orange, it forms the “Golden Triangle” petrochemical and industrial complex.
>	Beaumont, Francis English Jacobean poet and playwright who collaborated with John Fletcher on comedies and tragedies between about 1606 and 1613.
>	Beaumont, William U.S. army surgeon, the first person to observe and study human digestion as it occurs in the stomach.
>	Beaumont, Sir John, 1st Baronet English poet whose work helped to establish the heroic couplet as a dominant verse form. His most important works are The Metamorphosis of Tobacco (1602), a mock-heroic poem; Bosworth Field (1629), a long historical poem on the Battle of Bosworth Field (1485); and The Theatre of Apollo (1625), an unperformed court entertainment.
>	Éon de Beaumont, Charles (-Geneviève-Louis-Auguste-André-Timothée), chevalier d' (knight of) French secret agent from whose name the term “eonism,” denoting the tendency to adopt the costume and manners of the opposite sex, is derived.
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	Beaumont The wealth of Beaumont, the largest city of the Sabine-Neches industrial area, is based on petroleum. Petroleum is pumped to its refineries through pipelines from Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, Kansas, and New Mexico. The area's port facilities receive and ship millions of tons of cargo a year, most of it oil products.
	Fletcher, John (1579–1625). Both alone and in collaboration with Francis Beaumont and other writers, playwright John Fletcher produced some of the most successful comedies and tragedies staged in England in the early 17th century. By 1616 he had succeeded William Shakespeare as principal playwright for the King's Men, the leading theater company in London.
	prison and punishment During 1831 and 1832 two Frenchmen, Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont, toured the United States. After their visit each wrote a book. Beaumont's volume is about slavery. Tocqueville's is the classic ‘Democracy in America'. Publication of the books obscured the original purpose of their visit. The two men had been sent to the United States as delegates from ...
	Fermat, Pierre de (1601–65). One of the leading mathematicians of the 17th century was the Frenchman Pierre de Fermat. His work was all the more remarkable because mathematics was only his hobby. His profession was law. Independently of his great contemporary, René Descartes, he discovered the fundamental principles of analytic geometry. He is also regarded as the inventor of differential ...
	France from the storytelling article During the reign of Louis XIV, folktales and fairy tales became the fashion of the court. Simple stories told by the countryfolk were elaborated for the ladies and gentlemen who surrounded the king, and many modern fairy tales were written. This adult interest in fairy tales extended to fashionable circles throughout France.
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