See also:PIERRE See also:ROGER See also:DUCOS (1754-1816)
, See also:French politician and director, was See also:born at Dax
.
He was an See also:advocate when elected See also:deputy to the See also:Convention by the See also:department
of the See also:Landes
.
He sat in the " See also:Plain," i.e. in the party which had no See also:opinion of its own, which always leaned to the stronger See also:side
.
He voted for the See also:death 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., without See also:appeal or delay, but played no noticeable See also:part in the Convention
.
He was a member of the See also:Council of the Five See also:Hundred, over which he presided on the 18th of Fructidor in the See also:year V
.
(see FRENCH REVOLUTION)
.
At the end of his See also:term he became a See also:judge of the See also:peace, but after the See also:parliamentary coup d'etat of the 3oth of Prairial of the year VIII. he was named a member of the executive See also:Directory, thanks to the See also:influence of See also:Barras, who counted on using him as a passive See also:instrument
.
See also:Ducos accepted the coup d'etat of See also:Bonaparte on the 18th of See also:Brumaire, and was one of the three provisional consuls
.
He became See also:vice-See also:president of the See also:senate
.
The See also:Empire heaped favours upon him, but in 1814 he abandoned See also:Napoleon, and voted for his deposition
.
He sought to gain the favour of the See also:government of the Restoration, but in 1816 was exiled in virtue of the See also:law against the regicides
.
He died in See also:March 1816 at See also:Ulm, from a See also:carriage See also:accident
.
In spite of his See also:absolute lack of See also:- TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental
talent, he attained the highest of positions—an exceptional fact in the See also:history of the French Revolution
.
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