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FRANCOIS PAUL JULES GREVY (1813-1891)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 585 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FRANCOIS See also:PAUL JULES See also:GREVY (1813-1891)  , See also:President of the See also:French See also:Republic, was See also:born at Mont-sous-Vaudrey in the See also:Jura, on the 15th of See also:August 1813 . He became an See also:advocate in 1837, and, having steadily maintained republican principles under the See also:Orleans See also:monarchy, was elected by his native See also:department to the Constituent See also:Assembly of 1848 . Foreseeing that See also:Louis See also:Bonaparte would be elected president by the See also:people, he proposed to vest the See also:chief authority in a president of the See also:Council elected and removable by the Assembly, or in other words, to suppress the See also:Presidency of the Republic . After the coup d'etat this proposition gained See also:Grevy a reputation for sagacity, and upon his return to public See also:life in 1868 he took a prominent See also:place in the republican party . After the fall of the See also:Empire he was chosen president of the Assembly on the 16th of See also:February 1871, and occupied this position till the 2nd of See also:April 1876, when he resigned on See also:account of the opposition of the Right, which blamed him for having called one of its members to See also:order in the session of the previous See also:day . On the 8th of See also:March 1876 he was elected president of the Chamber of Deputies, a See also:post which he filled with such efficiency that upon the resignation of See also:Marshal See also:MacMahon he seemed to step naturally into the Presidency of the Republic (3oth See also:January 1879), and was elected without opposition by the republican parties (see See also:FRANCE: See also:History) . Quiet, shrewd, attentive to the public See also:interest and his own, but without any particular distinction, he would have See also:left an unblemished reputation if he had not unfortunately accepted a second See also:term (18th See also:December 1885) . Shortly afterwards the See also:traffic of his son-in-See also:law (See also:Daniel See also:Wilson) in the decorations of the See also:Legion of See also:Honour came to See also:light . Grevy was not accused of See also:personal participation in these scandals, but he was somewhat obstinate in refusing to realize that he was responsible indirectly for the use which his relative had made of the Elysee, and it had to be unpleasantly impressed upon him that his resignation was inevitable (2nd December 1887) . He died at Mont-sous-Vaudrey on the 9th of See also:September 189r . He owed both his success and his failure to the completeness with which he represented the particular type of the thrifty, generally sensible and patriotic, but narrow-minded and frequently egoistic See also:bourgeois . See his Discours politiques et judiciaires, rapports et messages . accompagnes de notices historiques et precedes dune introduction See also:par L .

Delabrousse (2 vols., 1888) . fails to obtain admirers . " La Jeune Fille a 1'agneau " fetched, indeed, at the Pourtales See also:

sale in 1865, no less than 1,000,200 francs . One of See also:Greuze's pupils, Madame Le Doux, imitated with success the manner of her See also:master; his daughter and granddaughter, Madame de Valory, also inherited some traditions of his See also:talent . Madame de Valory published in 1813 a comedie-See also:vaudeville, Greuze, ou l'accordee de See also:village, to which she prefixed a See also:notice of her grandfather's life and See also:works, and the Salons of See also:Diderot also contain, besides many other particulars, the See also:story at full length of Greuze's See also:quarrel with the See also:Academy . Four of the most distinguished engravers of that date, Massard Pere, Flipart, See also:Gaillard and See also:Levasseur, were specially entrusted by Greuze with the See also:reproduction of his subjects, but there are also excellent prints by other engravers, notably by Cars and Le Has . See also Normand, J . B . Greuze (1892) . (E . F . S .

D.) GREVILLE, See also:

CHARLES See also:CAVENDISH See also:FULKE (1794-1865), See also:English diarist, a See also:great-See also:grandson by his See also:father of the 5th See also:earl of See also:Warwick, and son of See also:Lady See also:Charlotte See also:Bentinck, daughter of the See also:duke of See also:Portland, formerly a See also:leader of the Whig party, and first See also:minister of the See also:crown, was born on the 2nd of April 1794 . Much of his childhood was spent at his grandfather's See also:house at See also:Bulstrode . He was one of the pages of See also:George III., and was educated at See also:Eton and See also:Christ See also:Church, See also:Oxford; but he left the university See also:early, having been appointed private secretary to Earl See also:Bathurst before he was twenty . The interest of the duke of Portland had secured for him the secretaryship of the See also:island of See also:Jamaica, which was a See also:sinecure See also:office, the duties being per-formed by a See also:deputy, and the reversion of the clerkship of the council . Greville entered upon the See also:discharge of the duties of clerk of the council in See also:ordinary in 1821, and continued to perform them for nearly See also:forty years . He therefore served under three successive sovereigns,—George IV., See also:William IV. and See also:Victoria,—and although no See also:political or confidential functions are attached to that office, it is one which brings a See also:man into habitual inter-course with the chiefs of all the parties in the See also:state . Well-born, well-bred, handsome and accomplished, Greville led the easy life of a man of See also:fashion, taking an occasional See also:part in the transactions of his day and much consulted in the affairs of private life . Until 1855 when he sold his See also:stud he was an active member of the See also:turf, and he trained successively with See also:Lord George Bentinck, and with the duke of Portland . But the celebrity which now attaches to his name is entirely due to the See also:posthumous publication of a portion of a See also:Journal or See also:Diary which it was his practice to keep during the greater part of his life . These papers were given by him to his friend Mr See also:Henry See also:Reeve a See also:short See also:time before his See also:death (which took place on the 18th of January 1865), with an See also:injunction that they should be published, as far as was feasible, at not too remote a See also:period after the writer's death . The See also:journals of the reigns of George IV. and William IV . (extending from 1820 to 1837) were accordingly so published in obedience to his directions about ten years after that event .

Few publications have been received with greater interest by the public; five large See also:

editions were sold in little more than a See also:year, and the demand in See also:America was as great as in See also:England . These journals were regarded as a faithful See also:record of the impressions made on the mind of a competent observer, at the time, by the events he witnessed and the persons with whom he associated . Greville did not stoop to collect or record private See also:scandal . His See also:object appears to have been to leave behind him some of the materials of history, by which the men and actions of his own time would be judged . He records not so much public events as the private causes which led to them; and perhaps no English memoir-writer has left behind him a more valuable contribution to the history of the 19th See also:century . Greville published anonymously, in 1845, a See also:volume on the Past and See also:Present Policy of England to See also:Ireland, in which he advocated the See also:payment of the See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:clergy; and he was also the author of several See also:pamphlets on the events of his day . His See also:brother, HENRY GREVILLE (1801-1872), attache to the See also:British See also:embassy in See also:Paris from 1834 to 1844, also kept a diary, of which part was published by Viscountess See also:Enfield, Leaves from the Diary of Henry Greville (See also:London, 1883-1884) .

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