See also:PIERRE 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 DE See also:LACRETELLE (1751-1824)
, See also:French politician and writer, was See also:born at See also:Metz on the 9th of See also:October 1751
.
He practised as a See also:barrister in See also:Paris; and under the Revolution was elected as a depute suppleant in the Constituent See also:Assembly, and later as See also:deputy in the Legislative Assembly
.
He belonged to the moderate party known as the " Feuillants," but after the loth of See also:August 1792 he ceased to take See also:part in public See also:life
.
In 1803 he became a member of the See also:Institute, taking the See also:place of La Harpe
.
Under the Restoration he was one of the See also:chief editors of the Minerve francaise; he wrote also an See also:essay, Sur le 18 See also:Brumaire (1799), some Fragments politiques et litteraires (1817), and a See also:treatise See also:Des partis politiques et des factions de la pretendue aristocratie d'aujourd'hui (1819)
.
His younger See also:brother, See also:JEAN See also:CHARLES DOMINIQUE DE See also:LACRETELLE, called Lacretelle le jeune (1766-1855), historian and journalist, was also born at Metz on the 3rd of See also:September 1766
.
He was called to Paris by his brother in 1787, and during the Revolution belonged, like him, to the party of the Feuillants
.
He was for some 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 secretary to the duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, the celebrated philanthropist, and afterwards joined the See also:staff of the See also:Journal de Paris, then managed by Suard, and where he had as colleagues See also:Andre See also:Chenier and See also:Antoine See also:Roucher
.
He made no See also:attempt to hide his monarchist sympathies, and this, together with the way in which he reported the trial and 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., brought him in peril of his life; to avoid this
danger he enlisted in the See also:army, but after See also:Thermidor he returned to Paris and to his newspaper See also:work
.
He was involved in the royalist See also:movement of the 13th Vendemiaire, and condemned to See also:deportation after the 18th Fructidor; but, thanks to powerful See also:influence, he was See also:left " forgotten " in See also:prison till after the 18th Brumaire, when he was set at See also:liberty by See also:Fouche
.
Under the See also:Empire he was appointed a See also:professor of See also:history in the Faculte des lettres of Paris (18o9), and elected as a member of the Academie francaise (1811)
.
In 1827 he was See also:prime mover in the protest made by the French See also:Academy against the See also:minister Peyronnet's See also:law on the See also:press, which led to the failure of that measure, but this step cost him, as it did See also:Villemain, his See also:post as censeur royal
.
Under Louis Philippe he devoted himself entirely to his teaching and See also:literary work
.
In 1848 he retired to See also:Macon; but there, as in Paris, he was the centre of a brilliant circle, for he was a wonderful causeur, and an equally See also:good listener, and had many interesting experiences to recall
.
He died on the 26th of See also:March 1855
.
His son See also:Pierre See also:Henri (1815—1899) was a humorous writer and politician of purely contemporary See also:interest
.
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Lacretelle's chief work is a See also:series of histories of the 18th See also:century, the Revolution and its sequel: Precis historique de la Revolution francaise, appended to the history of Rabaud St See also:Etienne, and partly written in the prison of La Force (5 vols., 18o1–18o6) ; Histoire de See also:France See also:pendant le X VIII' siecle (6 vols., 1808) ; Histoire de l'Assemblee Constituante (2 vols., 1821); L'Assemblee Legislative (1822); La See also:Convention Nationale (3 vols., 1824–1825); Histoire de France depuis la restauration (1829–1835); Histoire du consulat et de l'empire (4 vols., 1846)
.
The author was a moderate and See also:fair-minded See also:man, but possessed neither See also:great See also:powers of See also:style, nor striking See also:historical insight, nor the See also:special historian's See also:power of See also:writing See also:minute accuracy of detail with breadth of view
.
See also:Carlyle's sarcastic remark on Lacretelle's history of the Revolution, that it " exists, but does not profit much," is partly true of all his books
.
He had been an See also:eye-See also:witness of and an actor in the events which he describes, but his testimony must be accepted with caution
.
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