See also:PIERRE See also:ETIENNE 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 See also:DUMONT (1759-1829)
, See also:French See also:political writer, was See also:born on the 18th of See also:July 1759 at See also:Geneva, of which his See also:family had been citizens of See also:good repute from the days of See also:Calvin
.
He was educated for the See also:ministry at the See also:college of Geneva, and in 1781 was chosen one of the pastors of the See also:city
.
The political troubles which disturbed Geneva in 1782, however,
suddenly turned the course of his See also:life
.
He belonged to the liberals or democrats, and the See also:triumph of the aristocratic party, through the interference of the courts of See also:France and See also:Sardinia, made See also:residence in his native See also:town impossible, though he was not among the" number of the proscribed
.
He therefore went to join his See also:mother and sisters at St See also:Petersburg
.
In this he was probably influenced in See also:part by the example of his townsman See also:Pierre Lefort, the first See also:tutor, See also:minister, and See also:general of the See also:tsar
.
At St Petersburg he was for eighteen months pastor of the French See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church
.
In 1785 he removed to See also:London, See also:Lord Shelburne, then a minister of See also:state, having invited him to undertake the See also:education of his sons
.
It was at the See also:house of Lord Shelburne, now 1st See also:marquess of See also:Lansdowne, where he was treated as a friend or rather member of the family, that he became acquainted with many illustrious men, amongst others See also:Fox, See also:Sheridan, Lord See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland and See also:Sir See also:Samuel See also:Romilly
.
With the last of these he formed a See also:close and enduring friendship, which had an important See also:influence on his life and pursuits
.
In 1788 See also:Dumont visited See also:Paris with Romilly
.
During a stay of two months in that city he had almost daily intercourse with See also:Mirabeau, and a certain See also:affinity of talents and pursuits led to an intimacy between two persons diametrically opposed to each other in habits and in See also:character
.
On his return from Paris Dumont made the acquaintance of See also:Jeremy See also:Bentham
.
Filled with admiration for the See also:genius of Bentham, Dumont made it one of the See also:chief See also:objects of his life to recast and edit the writings of the See also:great See also:English jurist in a See also:form suitable for the See also:ordinary See also:reading public
.
This See also:literary relationship was, according to Dumont's own See also:account, one of a somewhat See also:peculiar character
.
All the fundamental ideas and most of the illustrative material were supplied in the' See also:manuscripts of Bentham; Dumont's task was chiefly to abridge by striking out repeated See also:matter, to See also:supply lacunae, to secure uniformity of See also:style, and to improve the French
.
The following See also:works of Bentham were published under his editorship: Traite de legislation civile et penale (1802), Theorie See also:des peines et des recompenses (1811), Tactique des assemblees legislatives (1815), Trait' des preuves judiciaires (1823) and De l'organization judiciaire et de la codification (1828)
.
In the summer of 1789 Dumont went to Paris
.
The See also:object of the See also:journey was to obtain through See also:Necker, who had just returned to See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office, an unrestricted restoration of Genevese See also:liberty, by cancelling the treaty of See also:guarantee between France and Switzer-See also:land, which prevented the See also:republic from enacting new See also:laws without the consent of the parties to this treaty
.
The proceedings and negotiations to which this See also:mission gave rise necessarily brought Dumont into connexion with most of the leading men in the Constituent See also:Assembly, and made him an interested spectator, sometimes even a participator, indirectly, in the events of the French Revolution
.
The same cause also led him to renew his acquaintance with Mirabeau, whom he found occupied with his duties as a See also:deputy, and with the See also:composition of his See also:journal, the See also:Courier de See also:Provence
.
For a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time Dumont took an active and very efficient part in the conduct of this journal, supplying it with reports as well as See also:original articles, and also furnishing Mirabeau with speeches to be delivered or rather read in the assembly, as related in his highly instructive and interesting See also:posthumous See also:work entitled Souvenirs sur Mirabeau (1832)
.
In fact his friend See also:George See also:- WILSON, ALEXANDER (1766-1813)
- WILSON, HENRY (1812–1875)
- WILSON, HORACE HAYMAN (1786–1860)
- WILSON, JAMES (1742—1798)
- WILSON, JAMES (1835— )
- WILSON, JAMES HARRISON (1837– )
- WILSON, JOHN (1627-1696)
- WILSON, JOHN (178 1854)
- WILSON, ROBERT (d. 1600)
- WILSON, SIR DANIEL (1816–1892)
- WILSON, SIR ROBERT THOMAS (1777—1849)
- WILSON, SIR WILLIAM JAMES ERASMUS
- WILSON, THOMAS (1663-1755)
- WILSON, THOMAS (c. 1525-1581)
- WILSON, WOODROW (1856— )
Wilson used to relate that one See also:day, when they were dining together at a table d'hote at See also:Versailles, he saw Dumont engaged in See also:writing the most celebrated See also:paragraph of Mirabeau's address to 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 for the removal of the troops
.
He also reported such of Mirabeau's speeches as he did not write, embellishing them from his own stores, which were inexhaustible
.
But this co-operation soon came to an end; for, being attacked in See also:pamphlets as one of Mirabeau's writers, he See also:felt hurt at the notoriety thus given to his name in connexion with a See also:man occupying Mirabeau's peculiar position, and returned to See also:England in 1791
.
In 18or he travelled over various parts of See also:Europe with Lord See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Petty, afterwards 3rd marquess of Lansdowne, and on his return settled down to the editorship of the works of Bentham already mentioned
.
In 1814 the restoration of Geneva to in-dependence induced Dumont to return to his native See also:place, and he soon became the See also:leader of the supreme See also:council
.
He devoted particular See also:attention to the judicial and penal systems of his native state, and many improvements on both are due to him
.
He died at See also:Milan when on an autumn tour on the 29th of See also:September 1829
.
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