Ivry. In the foreign invasions of 1814 it was captured and recaptured; in 1870–71 it was made by the Germans the seat of a governor-general and impoverished by heavy requisitions.
See G. Marlot, Histoire de la ville, cité et université de Reims, 4 vols. (Reims, 1843–46); J. Justinus (Baron I. Taylor), La Ville de Reims (Paris, 1854).
REIN, a guiding or controlling leather strap or thong, attached
to the bit of a ridden or driven horse (see Saddlery). The
word is taken from the O. Fr. rene, modern rêne, and is usually
traced to a supposed Late Latin substantive retina formed from
retinere, to hold back, restrain, cf. classical Latin retinaculum,
halter. The word, usually in the plural, has been often used
figuratively, as a type of that which guides, restrains or controls,
e.g. in such phrases as the “reins of government,” &c. The
“reins,” i.e. the kidneys (Lat. renes, cf. Gr. φρήν, the midriff),
or the place where the kidneys are situated, hence the loins,
also, figuratively, the seat of the emotions or affections, must be
distinguished.
REINACH, JOSEPH (1856–), French author and politician,
was born in Paris on the 30th of September 1856. After
leaving the Lycée Condorcet he studied for the bar, being
called in 1887. He attracted the attention of Gambetta by
articles on Balkan politics published in the Revue bleue, and
joined the staff of the République française. In Gambetta’s
grand ministère M. Reinach was his secretary, and drew up the
case for a partial revision of the constitution and for the electoral
method known as the scrutin de liste. In the République
française he waged a steady war against General Boulanger
which brought him three duels, one with Edmond Magnier and
two with Paul Déroulède. Between 1889 and 1898 he sat
for the Chamber of Deputies for Digne. As member of the
army commission, reporter of the budgets of the ministries of
the interior and of agriculture he brought forward bills for the
better treatment of the insane, for the establishment of a
colonial ministry, for the taxation of alcohol, and for the reparation
of judicial errors. He advocated complete freedom of the
theatre and the press, the abolition of public executions, and
denounced political corruption of all kinds. He was indirectly
implicated in the Panama scandals through his father-in-law,
Baron de Reinach, though he made restitution as soon as he
learned that he was benefiting by fraud. But he is best known
as the champion of Captain Dreyfus. At the time of the
original trial he attempted to secure a public hearing of the
case, and in 1897 he allied himself with Scheurer-Kestner to
demand its revision. He denounced in the Siècle the Henry
forgery, and Esterhazy’s complicity. His articles in the
Siècle aroused the fury of the anti-Dreyfusard party, especially
as he was himself a Jew and therefore open to the charge of
having undertaken to defend the innocence of Dreyfus on racial
grounds. He lost his seat in the Chamber of Deputies, and,
having refused to fight Henri Rochefort, eventually brought
an action for libel against him. Finally, the “affaire” being
terminated and Dreyfus pardoned, he undertook to write the
history of the case, the first four volumes of which appeared in
1901. This was completed in 1905. In 1906 M. Reinach was
re-elected for Digne. In that year he became member of the
commission of the national archives, and next year of the
council on prisons. Reinach was a voluminous writer on
political subjects. On Gambetta he published three volumes
in 1884, and he also edited his speeches. For the criticisms of
the anti-Dreyfusard press see Henri Dutrait-Croyon, Joseph
Reinach, historien (Paris, 1905), a violent criticism in detail of
Reinach’s history of the “affaire.”
His brother, the well-known savant, Salomon Reinach (1858–), born at St Germain-en-Laye on the 29th of August 1858, was educated at the École normale supérieure, and joined the French school at Athens in 1879. He made valuable archaeological discoveries at Myrina near Smyrna in 1880–82, at Cyme in 1881, at Thasos, Imbros and Lesbos (1882), at Carthage and Meninx (1883–84), at Odessa (1893) and elsewhere. He received honours from the chief learned societies of Europe, and in 1886 received an appointment at the National Museum of Antiquities at St Germain; in 1893 he became assistant keeper, and in 1902 keeper of the national museums. In 1903 he became joint editor of the Revue archéologique, and in the same year officer of the Legion of Honour. The lectures he delivered on art at the École du Louvre in 1902–3 were published by him under the title of Apollo. This book has been translated into most European languages, and is one of the most compact handbooks of the subject.
His first published work was a translation of Schopenhauer’s Essay on Free Will (1877), which passed through many editions. This was followed by many works and articles in the learned reviews of which a list—up to 1903—is available in Bibliographie de S. R. (Angers, 1903). His Manuel de philologie classique (1880–1884) was crowned by the French association for the study of Greek; his Grammaire latine (1886) received a prize from the Society of Secondary Education; La Nécropole de Myrina (1887), written with E. Pottier, and Antiquités nationales were crowned by the Academy of Inscriptions. He compiled an important Répertoire de la statuaire grecque et romaine (3 vols., 1897–98); also Répertoire de peintures du moyen âge et de la Renaissance 1280–1580 (1905, &c.); Répertoire des vases peints grecs et étrusques (1900). In 1905 he began his Cultes, mythes et religions; and in 1909 he published a general sketch of the history of religions under the title of Orpheus. He also translated from the English H. C. Lea’s History of the Inquisition.
A younger brother, Theodore Reinach (1860–), also had a brilliant career as a scholar. He pleaded at the Parisian bar in 1881–86, but eventually gave himself up to the study of numismatics. He wrote important works on the ancient kingdoms of Asia Minor—Trois royaumes de l’Asie Mineure, Cappadoce, Bithynie, Pont (1888), Mithridate Eupator (1890); also a critical edition and translation with H. Weil of Plutarch’s Treatise on Music; and an Histoire des Israélites depuis la ruine de leur indépendance nationale jusqu’à nos jours (2nd ed., 1901). From 1888 to 1897 he edited the Revue des études grecques.
REINAUD, JOSEPH TOUSSAINT (1795–1867), French orientalist,
was born on the 4th of December 1795 at Lambesc,
Bouches du Rhône. He came to Paris in 1815, and became a
pupil of Silvestre de Sacy. In 1818–19 he was at Rome as an
attaché to the French minister, and studied under the Maronites
of the Propaganda, but gave special attention to Mahommedan
coins. In 1824 he entered the department of oriental MSS.
in the Royal Library at Paris, and in 1838, on the death of
De Sacy, he succeeded to his chair in the school of living
oriental languages. In 1847 he became president of the
Société Asiatique, and in 1858 conservator of oriental MSS.
in the Imperial Library. His first important work was his
classical description of the collections of the duc de Blacas
(1828). To history he contributed an essay on the Arab invasions
of France, Savoy, Piedmont and Switzerland (1836),
and various collections for the period of the Crusades; he
edited (1840) and in part translated (1848) the geography
of Abulfeda; to him too is due a useful edition of the very
curious records of early Arab intercourse with China of which
Eusèbe Renaudot had given but an imperfect translation (Relation
des voyages, &c., 1845), and various other essays illustrating
the ancient and medieval geography of the East.
Reinaud died in Paris on the 14th of May 1867.
REINDEER, in its strict sense the title of a European deer
distinguished from all other members of the family Cervidae
(see Deer), save those of the same genus, by the presence of
antlers in both sexes; but, in the wider sense, including Asiatic
and North American deer of the same general type, the latter
of which are locally designated caribou. Reindeer, or caribou,
constitute the genus Rangifer, and are large clumsily built deer,
inhabiting the sub-Arctic and Arctic regions of both hemispheres.
As regards their distinctive features, the antlers are of a complex
type and situated close to the occipital ridge of the skull, and
thus far away from the sockets of the eyes, with the brow-tines
in adult males palmated, laterally compressed, defected towards
the middle of the face, and often unsymmetrically developed.
Above the brow-tine is developed a second palmated tine,
