See also:

• PIERRE

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:

• PIERRE LOUIS DE LACRETELLE (1751-1824)

LACRETELLE (1751-1824)  , See also:

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

French politician and writer, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• METZ

Metz on the 9th of See also:

• OCTOBER

October 1751 . He practised as a See also:

• BARRISTER

barrister in 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; and under the Revolution was elected as a depute suppleant in the Constituent See also:

• ASSEMBLY, UNLAWFUL

Assembly, and later as 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 in the Legislative Assembly . He belonged to the moderate party known as the " Feuillants," but after the loth of See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1792 he ceased to take See also:

• PART

part in public See also:

• LIFE

life . In 1803 he became a member of the See also:

• INSTITUTE (from Lat. instituere, to establish or set up)

Institute, taking the See also:

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

place of La Harpe . Under the Restoration he was one of the See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief editors of the Minerve francaise; he wrote also an See also:

• ESSAY, ESSAYIST (Fr. essai, Late Lat. exagium, a weighing or balance; exigere, to examine; the term in general meaning any trial or effort)

essay, Sur le 18 See also:

• BRUMAIRE

Brumaire (1799), some Fragments politiques et litteraires (1817), and a See also:

• TREATISE

treatise See also:

• DES

Des partis politiques et des factions de la pretendue aristocratie d'aujourd'hui (1819) . His younger See also:

• BROTHER

brother, See also:

• JEAN

JEAN See also:

• CHARLES
• CHARLES (1270-1325)
• CHARLES (1421-1461)
• CHARLES (1525-1574)
• CHARLES (c. 1319-1364)
• CHARLES (Fr. Charles; Span. Carlos; Ital. Carlo; Ger. Karl; derived from O.H.G. Charal,latinized as Carolus, meaning originally " man ": cf. Mod.Ger., Kerl," fellow," A.S. ceorl, Mod. Eng. " churl ")
• CHARLES (KARL EITEL ZEPHYRIN LUDWIG; in Rum. CAROL)
• CHARLES [KARL ALEXANDER] (1712-1780)
• CHARLES, ELIZABETH (1828-1896)
• CHARLES, JACQUES ALEXANDRE CESAR (1746-1823)
• CHARLES, THOMAS (1755-1814)

CHARLES DOMINIQUE DE See also:

• LACRETELLE, PIERRE LOUIS DE (1751-1824)

LACRETELLE, called Lacretelle le jeune (1766-1855), historian and journalist, was also born at Metz on the 3rd of See also:

• SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

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 (O. Eng. staef, cf. Du. staf, Ger. Stab, &c.; Icel. stafr meant also a written letter, and O. Eng. stafas, the letters of the alphabet; " stave," one of the thin pieces of wood of which a cask is made, is a doublet)

staff of the See also:

• JOURNAL
• JOURNAL (through Fr. from late Lat. diurnalis, daily)

Journal de Paris, then managed by Suard, and where he had as colleagues See also:

• ANDRE, JOHN (1751-178o)

Andre See also:

• CHENIER
• CHENIER, ANDRE DE (1762-1794)

Chenier and See also:

• ANTOINE, ANDRE (1858- )

Antoine See also:

• ROUCHER, JEAN ANTOINE (1745-1794)

Roucher . He made no See also:

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

attempt to hide his monarchist sympathies, and this, together with the way in which he reported the trial and See also:

• DEATH

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
• ARMY (from Fr. armee, Lat. armata)

army, but after See also:

• THERMIDOR (from Gr. BEpµrt, heat, and & pov, gift)

Thermidor he returned to Paris and to his newspaper See also:

• WORK

work . He was involved in the royalist See also:

• MOVEMENT

movement of the 13th Vendemiaire, and condemned to See also:

• DEPORTATION

deportation after the 18th Fructidor; but, thanks to powerful See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence, he was See also:

• LEFT

left " forgotten " in See also:

• PRISON (derived through the Fr. from the Lat. prehensio, seizure)

prison till after the 18th Brumaire, when he was set at See also:

• LIBERTY (Lat. libertas, from liber, free)

liberty by See also:

• FOUCHE, JOSEPH, DUKE OF OTRANTO (1763—1820)

Fouche . Under the See also:

• EMPIRE

Empire he was appointed a See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of See also:

• HISTORY

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, PRIMER AND PRIMING

prime mover in the protest made by the French See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

Academy against the See also:

• MINISTER (Lat. minister, servant)

minister Peyronnet's See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law on the See also:

• PRESS (through Fr. presse from Lat. pressare, frequentative of premere, to crush, squeeze, press)

press, which led to the failure of that measure, but this step cost him, as it did See also:

• VILLEMAIN, ABEL FRANCOIS (179o-1867)

Villemain, his See also:

• POST

post as censeur royal .

Under Louis Philippe he devoted himself entirely to his teaching and See also:

• LITERARY

literary work . In 1848 he retired to See also:

• MACON
• MACON, NATHANIEL (1758-1837)

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, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good listener, and had many interesting experiences to recall . He died on the 26th of See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1855 . His son See also:

• PIERRE

Pierre See also:

• HENRI

Henri (1815—1899) was a humorous writer and politician of purely contemporary See also:

• INTEREST

interest . J . C . Lacretelle's chief work is a See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of histories of the 18th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, the Revolution and its sequel: Precis historique de la Revolution francaise, appended to the history of Rabaud St See also:

• ETIENNE, CHARLES GUILLAUME (1778-1845)

Etienne, and partly written in the prison of La Force (5 vols., 18o1–18o6) ; Histoire de See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France See also:

• PENDANT (through Fr. from Lat. pendere, to hang)

pendant le X VIII' siecle (6 vols., 1808) ; Histoire de l'Assemblee Constituante (2 vols., 1821); L'Assemblee Legislative (1822); La See also:

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

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

fair-minded See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man, but possessed neither See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• POWERS, HIRAM (1805-1873)

powers of See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style, nor striking See also:

• HISTORICAL

historical insight, nor the See also:

• SPECIAL

special historian's See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power of See also:

• WRITING
• WRITING (the verbal noun of " to write," O. Eng. writan, to inscribe)

writing See also:

• MINUTE
• MINUTE (Lat. minutes, small; minuere, to make less)

minute accuracy of detail with breadth of view . See also:

• CARLYLE, ALEXANDER (1722-1805)
• CARLYLE, JOSEPH DACRE (1759-18o4)
• CARLYLE, THOMAS (1795-1881)

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
• EYE (O. Eng. edge, Ger. Auge; derived from an Indo-European root also seen in Lat. oc-ulus, the organ of vision (q.v.)

eye-See also:

• WITNESS
• WITNESS (from O. Eng. witan, to know)

witness of and an actor in the events which he describes, but his testimony must be accepted with caution .