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ANTOINE DE RIVAROL (1753-1801)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 374 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANTOINE DE See also:RIVAROL (1753-1801)  , See also:French writer and epigrammatist, was See also:born at Bagnols in See also:Languedoc on the 26th of See also:June, 1753, and died at See also:Berlin on the 1th of See also:April 18o1 . It seems that his See also:father was an innkeeper but a See also:man of cultivated tastes . The son assumed the See also:title of See also:comte de See also:Rivarol, and asserted his connexion with a See also:noble See also:Italian See also:family, but his enemies said that the name was really Riverot, and that the family was not noble . After various vicissitudes he appeared in See also:Paris in 1777 . After winning some See also:academic prizes, Rivarol distinguished himself in the See also:year 1784 by a See also:treatise Sur l'universalite de la langue francaise, and by a See also:translation of the Inferno . The year before the Revolution See also:broke out he, with some assistance from a man of similar but lesser See also:talent, Champcenetz,2 compiled a See also:lampoon, entitled See also:Petit Almanach de nos grands hommes pour 1788, in which some writers of actual or future talent and a See also:great many nobodies were ridiculed in the most pitiless manner . When the Revolution See also:developed the importance of the See also:press, Rivaroi at once took up arms on the Royalist See also:side, and wrote in the See also:Journal politique of See also:Antoine See also:Sabatier de See also:Castres (1742-1817) and the Actes See also:des Apotres of See also:Jean See also:Gabriel See also:Peltier (1770-1825)• But he emigrated in 1792, and established himself at See also:Brussels, whence he removed successively to See also:London, See also:Hamburg and Berlin . Rivarol has had no See also:rival in See also:France except See also:Piron in See also:sharp conversational sayings . These were mostly See also:ill-natured; and mostly have a merely See also:local application . Their brilliancy, however, can See also:escape no one . His See also:brother, See also:Claude See also:Francois (1762-1848), was also an author . His See also:works include Isman, ou le fatalisme (1795), a novel; Le Veridique (1827), See also:comedy; Essai sur See also:les causes de la revolution francaise (1827) .

The works of Antoine de Rivarol were published in five volumes (Paris, 1805) ; selections (Paris, 1858) with See also:

introductory See also:matter by Sainte-Beuve and others, and that edited in 1862 (2nd ed., 188o) by M. de See also:Lescure, may be specified . See also M. de Lescure's Rivarolet la societe francaise See also:pendant la revolution et ''See also:emigration (1882), and Le See also:Breton's Rivarol, sa See also:vie, ses idees (1895) . RIVE-DE-GIER, a See also:town of See also:east-central France, in the See also:department of See also:Loire, 14 . M . E.N.E. of St See also:Etienne, on the railway to See also:Lyons . Pop . (1906) 15,338 . Situated on the Gier and the See also:Canal de See also:Givors, it is principally dependent on the See also:coal See also:industry, giving its name to a coal-See also:basin which is a continuation of that of St Etienne . It has See also:glass works, the products of which are celebrated on See also:account of the fineness and purity of the See also:sand found on the See also:banks of 2 See also:Louis Rene Quantin de Richebourg, See also:Chevalier de Champcenetz (1760-1794), died on the See also:scaffold . He is not to be confounded with Louis See also:Pierre, See also:marquis de Champcenetz, See also:governor of the Tuileries in 1789, who escaped in 1792 through the See also:protection of Mme . See also:Elliott, See also:mistress of the duc d'See also:Orleans . 374 the See also:Rhone and the See also:Saone .

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iron and See also:steel works where iron goods and ironmongery of all kinds are manufactured . Rive-de-Gier is a See also:place of some antiquity, as appears from remains of Gallo-See also:Roman buildings, and mosaics and coins found at various times . In the See also:time of See also:Henry IV. the working of the mines had already given to the locality a measure of importance .

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