BEAUFORT, the lover of Maria Wilding, whom he ultimately marries.--A. Murphy, _The Citizen_ (a farce). BEAUJEU (_Mons. le chevalier de_), keeper of a gambling-house to which Dalgarno takes Nigel.--Sir W. Scott, _Fortunes of Nigel_ (time, James I.). _Beaujeu_ (_Mons. le comte de_), a French officer in the army of the Chevalier Charles Edward, the Pretender.--Sir W. Scott, _Waverley_ (time, George II.). BEAUMAINS ("_big hands_"), a nickname which sir Key (Arthur's steward) gave to Gareth when he was kitchen drudge in the palace. "He had the largest hands that ever man saw." Gareth was the son of king Lot and Margawse (king Arthur's sister). His brothers were sir Gaw'ain, sir Agravain, and sir Gaheris. Mordred was his half-brother.--Sir T. Malory, _History of Prince Arthur_, i. 120 (1470). [Illustration] His achievements are given under the name "Gareth" (q.v.). Tennyson, in his _Gareth and Lynette_, makes sir Key tauntingly address Lancelot thus, referring to Gareth: Fair and fine, forsooth! Sir Fine-face, sir Fair-hands? But see thou to it That thine own fineness, Lancelot, some fine day, Undo thee not. Be it remembered that Key himself called Gareth "Beaumain" from the extraordinary size of the lad's hands; but the taunt put into the mouth of Key by the poet indicates that the lad prided himself on his "fine" face and "fair" hands, which is not the case. If "fair hands" is a translation of this nickname, it should be "fine hands," which bears the equivocal sense of _big_ and _beautiful_. BEAU'MANOIR (_Sir Lucas_), Grand-Master of the Knights Templars.--Sir W. Scott, _Ivanhoe_ (time, Richard I.). BEAUPRE [_Bo-pray_'], son of judge Vertaigne (2 _syl_.) and brother of Lami'ra.--Beaumont and Fletcher, _The Little French Lawyer_ (1647). BEAUTÉ (2 _syl_). _La dame de Beauté_. Agnes Sorel, so called from the château de Beauté, on the banks of the Marne, given to her by Charles VII. (1409-1450). BEAUTIFUL CORISANDE (3 _syl_). Diane comtesse de Guiche et de Grammont. She was the daughter of Paul d'Andouins, and married Philibert de Grammont, who died in 1580. The widow outlived her husband for twenty-six years. Henri IV., before he was king of Navarre, was desperately smitten by La belle Corisande, and when Henri was at war with the League, she sold her diamonds to raise for him a levy of 20,000 Gascons (1554-1620). (The letters of Henri to Corisande are still preserved in the _Bibliothéque de l'Arsenal_, and were published in 1769.) BEAUTIFUL PARRICIDE (_The_), Beatrice Cenci, daughter of a Roman nobleman, who plotted the death of her father because he violently defiled her. She was executed in 1605. Shelley has a tragedy on the subject, entitled _The Cenci_. Guido Reni's portrait of Beatrice is well known through its numberless reproductions.