See also:

• JEAN

JEAN See also:

• HENRI

HENRI See also:

• JEAN HENRI LATUDE

LATUDE  , often called DANRY or MASERS DE See also:

• LATUDE, JEAN HENRI

LATUDE (1725–1805), prisoner of the See also:

• BASTILLE (from Fr. bastir, now bdtir, to build)

Bastille, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Montagnac in See also:

• GASCONY (Wasconia)

Gascony on the 23rd 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 1725 . He received a military See also:

• EDUCATION

education and went to 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 in 1748 to study See also:

• MATHEMATICS (Gr. /saBnµar1Kil, Sc. vOcvn or E7rlQTt'µn; from p iN.La, "learning" or "science ")

mathematics . He led a dissipated See also:

• LIFE

life and endeavoured to See also:

• CURRY

curry favour with the marquise de See also:

• POMPADOUR, JEANNE ANTOINETTE POISSON LE NORMANT

Pompadour by secretly sending her a See also:

• BOX
• BOX (Gr. irl or, Lat. buxus, box-wood; cf. 2r6Eir, a pyx)

box of See also:

• POISON

poison and then informing her of the supposed See also:

• PLOT
• PLOT, ROBERT (164o-1696)

plot against her life . The ruse was discovered, and Mme de Pompadour, not appreciating the See also:

• HUMOUR (Latin humor)

humour of the situation, had Latude put in the Bastille on the 1st of May 1749 . He was later transferred to See also:

• VINCENNES

Vincennes, whence he escaped in 1750 . Retaken and reimprisoned in the Bastille, he made a second brief See also:

• ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli

escape in 1756 . He was transferred to Vincennes in 1764, and the next See also:

• YEAR

year made a third escape and was a third 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 recaptured . He was put in a madhouse by See also:

• MALESHERBES, CHRETIEN GUILLAUME DE LAMOIGNON DE (1721-1794)

Malesherbes in 1775, and discharged in 1777 on See also:

• CONDITION (Lat. condicio, from condicere, to agree upon, arrange; not connected with conditio, from condere, conditum, to put together)

condition that he should retire to his native See also:

• TOWN

town . He remained in Paris and was again imprisoned . A certain Mme See also:

• LEGROS, ALPHONSE (1837– )

Legros became interested in him through See also:

• CHANCE (through the O. Fr. cheance, from the Late Lat. cadentia, things happening, from cadere, to fall out, happen; cf. " case ")

chance See also:

• READING

reading of one of his See also:

• MEMOIRS

memoirs, and, by a vigorous agitation in his behalf, secured his definite See also:

• RELEASE (O.Fr. reles, variant of relais, from relaisser, to release, let go, Lat. relaxare)

release in 1784 . He exploited his See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long captivity with considerable ability, posing as a brave officer, a son of the See also:

• MARQUIS

marquis de la Tude, and a victim of Pompadour's intrigues . He was extolled and pensioned during the Revolution, and in 1793 the See also:

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

convention compelled the heirs of Mme de Pompadour to pay him 6o,000 francs See also:

• DAMAGES (through O. Fr. damage, mod. Fr. dommage, from Lat. damnum, loss)

damages .

He died in obscurity at Paris on the 1st of See also:

• JANUARY

January 1805 . The See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal See also:

• WORK

work of Latude is the See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of his imprisonment, written in collaboration with an See also:

• ADVOCATE (Lat. advocatus, from advocare, to summon, especially in law to call in the aid of a counsel or witness, and so generally to summon to one's assistance)

advocate named Thiery, and en-titled Le Despotisme devoile, ou Memoires de See also:

• HENRI

Henri Masers de la Tude, detenu See also:

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

pendant trente-cinq ans clans See also:

• LES

les diverses prisons d'etat (Amster-See also:

• DAM

dam, 1787, ed . Paris, 1889) . An Eng. trans. of a portion was published in 1787 . The work is full of lies and misrepresentations, but had See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• VOGUE, EUGENE MELCHIOR, COMTE DE (1848- )

vogue at the time of the See also:

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

French Revolution . Latude also wrote essays on all sorts of subjects . See J . F . Barriere, Memoires de See also:

• LINGUET, SIMON NICHOLAS HENRI (1736-1794)

Linguet et de Latude (1884); G . See also:

• BERTIN

Bertin, See also:

• NOTICE

Notice in edition of the Memoires (1889); F . Funck-See also:

• BRENTANO, KLEMENS (1778-1842)
• BRENTANO, LUDWIG JOSEPH [called Lujo]

Brentano, " Latude," in the Revue See also:

• DES

des deux mondes (1st See also:

• OCTOBER

October 1889) .