1834); Essai sur l’histoire de la philosophie en France au XVII. siècle (1846); Mémoires à servir pour l’histoire de la philosophie en France au XVIII. siècle (1858–1864); Cours de la philosophie; De la Providence (1849, 1850).
See A. Franck, Moralistes et philosophes (1872).
DAMJANICH, JÁNOS (1804–1849), Hungarian soldier, was
born at Stása in the Banat. He entered the army as an officer
in the 61st regiment of foot, and on the outbreak of the Hungarian
war of independence was promoted to be a major in the
third Honvéd regiment at Szeged. Although an orthodox Serb,
he was from the first a devoted adherent of the Magyar liberals.
He won his colonelcy by his ability and valour at the battles of
Alibunár and Lagerdorf in 1848. At the beginning of 1849 he
was appointed commander of the 3rd army corps in the middle
Theiss, and quickly gained the reputation of being the bravest
man in the Magyar army, winning engagement after engagement
by sheer dash and daring. At the beginning of March 1849 he
annihilated a brigade at Szolnók, perhaps his greatest exploit.
He was elected deputy for Szolnók to the Hungarian diet, but
declined the honour. Damjanich played a leading part in the
general advance upon the Hungarian capital under Görgei. He
was present at the engagements of Hort and Hatvan, converted
the doubtful fight of Tápió-Bicsk into a victory, and fought
with irresistible élan at the bloody battle of Isaszeg. At the
ensuing review at Gödöllö, Kossuth expressed the sentiments of
the whole nation when he doffed his hat as Damjanich’s battalions
passed by. Always a fiery democrat, Damjanich uncompromisingly
supported the extremist views of Kossuth, and was
appointed commander of one of the three divisions which, under
Görgei, entered Vācz in April 1849. His fame reached its
culmination when, on the 19th of April, he won the battle of
Nagysarló, which led to the relief of the hardly-pressed fortress
of Komárom. At this juncture Damjanich broke his leg, an
accident which prevented him from taking part in field operations
at the most critical period of the war, when the Magyars
had to abandon the capital for the second time. He recovered
sufficiently, however, to accept the post of commandant of the
fortress of Arad. After the Vilagós catastrophe, Damjanich, on
being summoned to surrender, declared he would give up the
fortress to a single company of Cossacks, but would defend it to
the last drop of his blood against the whole Austrian army. He
accordingly surrendered to the Russian general Demitrius
Buturlin (1790–1849), by whom he was handed over to the
Austrians, who shot him in the market-place of Arad a few days
later.
See Ödön Hamvay, Life of János Damjanich (Hung.), (Budapest, 1904). (R. N. B.)
DAMMAR, or Dammer (Hind, damar = resin, pitch), a resin,
or rather series of resins, obtained from various coniferous trees
of the genus Dammara (Agathis). East Indian dammar or cat’s
eye resin is the produce of Dammara orientalis, which grows in
Java, Sumatra, Borneo and other eastern islands and sometimes
attains a height of 80–100 ft. It oozes in large quantities
from the tree in a soft viscous state, with a highly aromatic
odour, which, however, it loses as it hardens by exposure. The
resin is much esteemed in oriental communities for incense-burning.
Dammar is imported into England by way of Singapore;
and as found in British markets it is a hard, transparent,
brittle, straw-coloured resin, destitute of odour. It is readily
soluble in ether, benzol and chloroform, and with oil of turpentine
it forms a fine transparent varnish which dries clear, smooth and
hard. The allied kauri gum, or dammar of New Zealand
(Australian dammar), is produced by Dammara australis, or
kauri-pine, the wood of which is used for wood paving. Much of
the New Zealand resin is found fossil in circumstances analogous
to the conditions under which the fossil copal of Zanzibar is
obtained. Dammar is besides a generic Indian name for various
other resins, which, however, are little known in western commerce.
Of these the principal are black dammar (the Hindustani
kala-damar), yielded by Canarium strictum, and white dammar,
Indian copal, or piney varnish (sufed-damar), the produce of
Vateria indica. Sal dammar (damar) is obtained from Shorea
robusta; Hopea micrantha is the source of rock dammar (the
Malay dammer-batu); and other species yield resins which are
similarly named and differ little in physical properties.
DAMMARTIN, a small town of France, in the department of
Seine et Marne, 22 m. N.E. of Paris. It is well situated on a
hill forming part of the plateau of la Goële, and is known as
Dammartin-en-Goële to distinguish it from Dammartin-sous-Tigeaux,
a small commune in the same department. Dammartin
is historically important as the seat of a countship of which the
holders played a considerable part in French history. The
earliest recorded count of Dammartin was a certain Hugh, who
made himself master of the town in the 10th century; but his
dynasty was replaced by another family in the 11th century.
Reynald I. (Renaud), count of Dammartin (d. 1227), who was
one of the coalition crushed by King Philip Augustus at the
battle of Bouvines (1214), left two co-heiresses, of whom the
elder, Maud (Matilda or Mahaut), married Philip Hurepel, son
of Philip Augustus, and the second, Alix, married Jean de Trie,
in whose line the countship was reunited after the death of
Philip Hurepel’s son Alberic. The countship passed, through
heiresses, to the houses of Fayel and Nanteuil, and in the 15th
century was acquired by Antoine de Chabannes (d. 1488), one
of the favourites of King Charles VII., by his marriage with
Marguerite, heiress of Reynald V. of Nanteuil-Aci and Marie of
Dammartin. This Antoine de Chabannes, count of Dammartin
in right of his wife, fought under the standard of Joan of Arc,
became a leader of the Écorcheurs, took part in the war of the
public weal against Louis XI., and then fought for him against
the Burgundians. The collegiate church at Dammartin was
founded by him in 1480, and his tomb and effigy are in the
chancel. His son, Jean de Chabannes, left three heiresses,
of whom the second left a daughter who brought the countship
to Philippe de Boulainvilliers, by whose heirs it was sold in
1554 to the dukes of Montmorency. In 1632 the countship was
confiscated by Louis XIII. and bestowed on the princes of
Condé.
DAMME, a decayed city of Belgium, 5 m. N.E. of Bruges,
once among the most important commercial ports of Europe.
It is situated on the canal from Bruges to Sluys (Ecluse), but
in the middle ages a navigable channel or river called the Zwyn
gave ships access to it from the North Sea. The great naval
battle of Sluys, in which Edward III. destroyed the French
fleet and secured the command of the channel, was fought in
the year 1340 at the mouth of the Zwyn. About 1395 this
channel began to show signs of silting up, and during the next
hundred years the process proved rapid. In 1490 a treaty was
signed at Damme between the people of Bruges and the archduke
Maximilian, and very soon after this event the channel became
completely closed up, and the foreign merchant gilds or “nations”
left the place for Antwerp. This signified the death of the port
and was indirectly fatal to Bruges as well. The marriage of
Charles the Bold and Margaret of York, sister of Edward IV.,
was celebrated at Damme on the 2nd of July 1468. It will give
some idea of the importance of the town to mention that it had
its own maritime law, known as Droit maritime de Damme. The
new ship canal from Zeebrugge will not revive the ancient port,
as it follows a different route, leaving Damme and Ecluse quite
untouched. Damme, although long neglected, preserves some
remains of its former prosperity, thanks to its remoteness from
the area of international strife in the Low Countries. The tower
of Notre Dame, dating from 1180, is a landmark across the
dunes, and the church behind it, although a shell, merits inspection.
Out of a portion of the ancient markets a hôtel-de-ville
of modest dimensions has been constructed, and in the
hospital of St Jean are a few pictures. Camille Lemonnier has
given in one of his Causeries a striking picture of this faded
scene of former greatness, now a solitude in which the few
residents seem spectres rather than living figures.
DAMOCLES, one of the courtiers of the elder Dionysius of Syracuse. When he spoke in extravagant terms of the happiness of his sovereign, Dionysius is said to have invited him to a sumptuous banquet, at which he found himself seated under
