=Geneviève= (_St._) the patron saint of Paris, born at Nanterre. She was a shepherdess, but went to Paris when her parents died, and was there during Attila’s invasion (A.D. 451). She told the citizens that God would spare the city, and “her prediction came true.” At another time, she procured food for the Parisians suffering from famine. At her request, Clovis built the church of St. Pierre et St. Paul, afterwards called Ste. Geneviève. Her day is January 3. Her relics are deposited in the Panthèon now called by her name (419-512). =Genii= or =Ginu=, an intermediate race between angels and men. They ruled on earth before the creation of Adam—D’Herbelot, _Bibliothèque Orientale_, 357 (1697). Also spelt Djinn and Jinn. ⁂ Solomon is supposed to preside over the whole race of genii. This seems to have arisen from a mere confusion of words of somewhat similar sound. The chief of the genii was called a suleyman, which got corrupted into a proper name. =Genius and Common Sense=, T. Moore says that Common Sense and Genius once went out together on a ramble by moonlight. Common Sense went prosing on his way, arrived home in good time, and went to bed; but Genius, while gazing at the stars, stumbled into a river, and died. ⁂ This story is told of Thalês, the philosopher, by Plato. Chaucer has also an allusion thereto in his _Miller’s Tales_. So ferde another clerk with ’stronomye: He walkêd in the feeldês for to prye Upon the sterrês, what ther shuld befall, Til he was in a marlê pit i-fall, Chaucer, _Canterbury Tales_, (1388). =Genna´ro= the natural son of Lucrezia di Borgia (daughter of Pope Alexander VI.) before her marriage with Alfonso, duke of Ferra´ra. He was brought up by a Neapolitan fisherman. In early manhood he went to Venice, heard of the scandalous cruelty of Lucrezia, and with the heedless petulance of youth, mutilated the duke’s escutcheon by striking out the B, thus converting Borgia into Orgia (_orgies_). Lucrezia demanded vengeance, and Gennaro was condemned to death by poison. When Lucrezia discovered that the offender was her own son, she gave him an antidote to the poison, and set him free. Not long after this, at a banquet given by Negro´ni Lucrezia revealed herself to Gennaro as his mother, and both expired of poison in the banquet hall.—Donizetti, _Lucrezia di Borgia_ (1834). =Gennil= (_Ralph_), a veteran in the troop of Sir Hugo de Lacy.—Sir W. Scott, _The Betrothed_ (time, Henry II.). =Genove´va,= wife of Siegfried, count palatine of Brabant. Being suspected of infidelity, she was driven into the forest of Ardennes, where she gave birth to a son, who was suckled by a white doe. After a time Siegfried discovered his error, and both mother and child were restored to their proper home.—_German Popular Stories._ Tieck and Müller have popularized the tradition, and Raupach has made it the subject of a drama.