See also:

• JEAN

JEAN See also:

• BAPTISTE

BAPTISTE See also:

• JEAN BAPTISTE DROUET (1763-1824)

DROUET (1763-1824)  , See also:

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

French Revolutionist, chiefly noted for the See also:

• PART

part he played in the See also:

• ARREST (Fr. arrester, arreeter, to stop or stay)

arrest 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 XVI. at Varennes, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Sainte-Menehould . He served for seven years in the See also:

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

army, and afterwards assisted his See also:

• FATHER

father, who was See also:

• POST

post-See also:

• MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master of his native See also:

• TOWN

town . The carriages conveying the royal See also:

• FAMILY

family on their See also:

• FLIGHT

flight to the frontier stopped at his See also:

• DOOR (corresponding to the Gr. Bbpa,. Lat. fores or valvae; the English word, with other forms common in allied languages, comes from the same Indo-European stem as the Gr. Obpa and Lat. fares)

door on the evening of the 21st of See also:

• JUNE

June 1791; and the passengers, travelling under assumed names, were recognized by See also:

• DROUET, JEAN BAPTISTE (1763-1824)

Drouet, who immediately took steps which led to their arrest and detection on reaching Varennes . For this service the See also:

• ASSEMBLY, UNLAWFUL

Assembly awarded him 30,000 francs, but he appears to have declined the See also:

• REWARD

reward . In See also:

• SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1792 he was elected See also:

• DEPUTY (through the Fr. from a Late Lat. use of deputare, to cut off, allot; putare having the original sense of to trim, prune)

deputy to the See also:

• CONVENTION (Lat. conventio, an assembly or agreement, from convenire, to come together)
• CONVENTION, THE NATIONAL

Convention, and took his See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place with the most violent party . He voted the See also:

• DEATH

death of the See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king without See also:

• APPEAL

appeal, showed implacable hostility to the Girondins, and proposed the slaughter of all See also:

• ENGLISH

English residents in See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France . Sent as See also:

• COMMISSIONER

commissioner to the army of the See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

north, he was captured at the See also:

• SIEGE (0. Fr. sege, siege, mod. siege, seat, ultimately from sedere, to sit, cf. Class. Lat. obsidium, a siege)

siege of See also:

• MAUBEUGE

Maubeuge and imprisoned at Spielberg till the See also:

• CLOSE
• CLOSE (from Lat. clausum, shut)
• CLOSE, MAXWELL HENRY (1822-1903)

close of 1795 . He then became a member of the See also:

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

Council of Five See also:

• HUNDRED

Hundred, and was named secretary . Drouet was implicated in the See also:

• CONSPIRACY (from Lat. conspirare, literally to breathe together, to agree, combine, and especially to form a secret plot)

conspiracy of BaI euf, and was imprisoned; but he made his See also:

• ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli

escape into See also:

• SWITZERLAND

Switzerland, and thence to See also:

• TENERIFFE [Tenerife]

Teneriffe . There he took part in the successful resistance to the See also:

• ATTEMPT (Lat. adtemptare, attentare, to try)

attempt of See also:

• NELSON
• NELSON, HORATIO NELSON, VISCOUNT (1758-1805)
• NELSON, ROBERT (s656-1715)

Nelson on the See also:

• ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

island, in 1797, and later visited See also:

• INDIA
• INDIA, FRENCH

India . The first See also:

• EMPIRE

empire found in him a docile sub-See also:

• PREFECT (prefet)

prefect of Sainte-Menehould . After the second Restoration he was compelled to quit France .

Returning secretly he settled at See also:

• MACON
• MACON, NATHANIEL (1758-1837)

Macon, under the name of See also:

• MERGER (Fr. merger, to sink)

Merger and a See also:

• GUISE
• GUISE, HOUSE OF

guise of piety, and preserved his incognito till his death on the 11th of See also:

• APRIL

April 1824 . See G . Lenotre, Le Drame de Varennes (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, 1905) .