See also:

• COMTE, AUGUSTE [ISIDORE AUGUSTE MARIE FRANCOIS XAVIER] (1798-1857)

COMTE See also:

• ANTOINE, ANDRE (1858- )

ANTOINE JACQUES See also:

• CLAUDE, JEAN (1619-1687)

CLAUDE See also:

• JOSEPH
• JOSEPH, COMTE DE (1785-1870)
• JOSEPH, FATHER (FRANCOIS LECLERC DU TREMBLAY) (1577-1638)

JOSEPH BOULAY DE LA MEURTHE (1761-1840)  , See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French politician and See also:

• MAGISTRATE (Lat. magistratus, from magister, master, properly a public office, hence the person holding such an office)

magistrate, son of an agricultural labourer, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Chamousey (See also:

• VOSGES
• VOSGES (Lat. Vogesus or Vosagus, Ger. Wasgau or Vogesen)

Vosges) on the 19th of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1761 . Called to the See also:

• BAR
• BAR (0. Fr. barre, Late Lat. barra, origin unknown)
• BAR, CONFEDERATION OF
• BAR, FRANCOIS DE (1538-1606)
• BAR, THE

bar at See also:

• NANCY

Nancy in 1783, he presently went-to See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris, where he rapidly acquired a reputation as a lawyer and a See also:

• SPEAKER

speaker . He supported the revolutionary cause in See also:

• LORRAINE

Lorraine, and fought at Valmy (1792) and Wissembourg (1793) in the republican See also:

• ARMY
• ARMY (from Fr. armee, Lat. armata)

army . But his moderate principles brought suspicion on him, and during the Terror he had to go into hiding . He represented La Meurthe in the See also:

• COUNCIL (Lat. concilium, from cum, together, and the root cal, to call)

Council of Five See also:

• HUNDRED

Hundred, of which he was twice See also:

• PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

president, but his views See also:

• DEVELOPED

developed steadily in the conservative direction . Fearing a possible renewal of the Terror, he became an active member of the See also:

• PLOT
• PLOT, ROBERT (164o-1696)

plot for the overthrow of the See also:

• DIRECTORY

Directory in See also:

• NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1799 . He was rewarded by the See also:

• PRESIDENCY

presidency of the legislative See also:

• COMMISSION (from Lat. commissio, committere)

commission formed by See also:

• NAPOLEON

Napoleon to draw up the new constitution; and as president of the legislative See also:

• SECTION
• SECTION (Lat. sectio, cutting, secare, to cut)

section of the council of See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state he examined and revised the draft of the See also:

• CIVIL

civil See also:

• CODE (Lat. codex)

code . In eight years of hard See also:

• WORK

work as director of a See also:

• SPECIAL

special See also:

• LAND

land commission he settled the titles of land acquired by the French nation at the Revolution, and placed on an unassailable basis the rights of the proprietors who had bought this land from the See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government . He received the See also:

• GRAND

grand See also:

• CROSS

cross of the See also:

• LEGION (Lat. legio)

Legion of See also:

• HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

Honour and the See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title of See also:

• COUNT (Lat. comes, gen. comitis, Fr. comte, Ital. conte, Span. conde)

count, was a member of Napoleon's privy council, but was never in high favour at See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court . After See also:

• WATERLOO

Waterloo he tried to obtain the recognition of Napoleon II . He was placed under surveillance at Nancy, and later at See also:

• HALBERSTADT

Halberstadt and See also:

• FRANKFORT

Frankfort-on-See also:

• MAIN (from the Aryan root which appears in " may " and " might," and Lat. magnus, great)
• MAIN (Lat. Moenus)

Main . He was allowed to return to See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France in 1819, but took no further active See also:

• PART

part in politics, although he presented himself unsuccessfully for See also:

• PARLIAMENTARY

parliamentary See also:

• ELECTION
• ELECTION (from Lat. eligere, to pick out)

election in 1824 and 1827 .

He died in Paris on the 4th of February 1840 . He published two books on See also:

• ENGLISH

English See also:

• HISTORY

history—Essai sur See also:

• LES

les causes qui, en 1649, amenerent en Angleterre l'etablissement de la republique (Paris, 1799), and Tableau politique See also:

• DES

des regnes de See also:

• CHARLES
• CHARLES (1270-1325)
• CHARLES (1421-1461)
• CHARLES (1525-1574)
• CHARLES (c. 1319-1364)
• CHARLES (Fr. Charles; Span. Carlos; Ital. Carlo; Ger. Karl; derived from O.H.G. Charal,latinized as Carolus, meaning originally " man ": cf. Mod.Ger., Kerl," fellow," A.S. ceorl, Mod. Eng. " churl ")
• CHARLES (KARL EITEL ZEPHYRIN LUDWIG; in Rum. CAROL)
• CHARLES [KARL ALEXANDER] (1712-1780)
• CHARLES, ELIZABETH (1828-1896)
• CHARLES, JACQUES ALEXANDRE CESAR (1746-1823)
• CHARLES, THOMAS (1755-1814)

Charles II et Jacques II, derniers rois de la maison de See also:

• STUART, ARABELLA (1575-1615)
• STUART, GILBERT (1755-x828)
• STUART, JAMES EWELL BROWN (1833-1864)
• STUART, JOHN
• STUART, MOSES (1780-1852)
• STUART, SIR JOHN, COUNT

Stuart (The See also:

• HAGUE, THE (in Dutch, 's Gravenhage, or, abbreviated, den Haag; in Fr. La Haye; and in Late Lat. Haga Comitis)

Hague, 18x8)-which contained much indirect See also:

• CRITICISM
• CRITICISM (from the Gr. KpiTrlS, a judge, Kpivew, to decide, to give an authoritative opinion)

criticism of the Directory and the Restoration governments . He devoted the last years of his See also:

• LIFE

life to See also:

• WRITING
• WRITING (the verbal noun of " to write," O. Eng. writan, to inscribe)

writing his See also:

• MEMOIRS

memoirs, which, with the exception of a fragment on the Theorie constitutionnelle de Sieyes (1836), remained unpublished . His See also:

• ELDER (0. Eng. ellarn; Ger. Holunder; Fr. sureau)
• ELDER (Gr. 1rpev(3iTepos)

elder son, See also:

• COMTE, AUGUSTE [ISIDORE AUGUSTE MARIE FRANCOIS XAVIER] (1798-1857)

Comte See also:

• HENRI

HENRI GEORGES BOULAY DE LA MEURTHE (1797-1858), was a See also:

• CONSTANT, BENJAMIN (1845-1902)

constant Bonapartist, and after the election of See also:

• LOUIS
• LOUIS (804–876)
• LOUIS (893–911)
• LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
• LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian

Louis Napoleon to the presidency, was named (See also:

• JANUARY

January 1849) See also:

• VICE

vice-president of the See also:

• REPUBLIC (Lat. respublica, a commonweal or common-wealth)

republic . He zealously promoted popular See also:

• EDUCATION

education, and became in 1842 president of the society for elementary instruction .