See also:

• JEAN

JEAN See also:

• LAMBERT [alias NICHOLSON], JOHN (d. 1538)
• LAMBERT, DANIEL (1770-1809)
• LAMBERT, FRANCIS (c 1486-153o)
• LAMBERT, JOHANN HEINRICH (1728–1777)
• LAMBERT, JOHN (1619-1694)

LAMBERT See also:

• JEAN LAMBERT TALLIEN (1767-1820)

TALLIEN (1767-1820)  , See also:

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

French Revolutionist, was the son of the maitre d'hetel of the See also:

• MARQUIS

marquis de Bercy, and was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born 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 . The marquis, perceiving the boy's ability, had him well educated, and got him a See also:

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

place as a lawyer's clerk . Being much excited by the first events of the Revolution, he gave up his See also:

• DESK (from Lat. discus, quoit, in med. sense of " table," cf. " dish " and Ger. Tisch, table, from same source)

desk to enter a printer's See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office, and by 1791 he was overseer of the See also:

• PRINTING (from Lat. imprimere, O. Fr. empreindre)

printing See also:

• DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department of the Moniieur . While thus employed he conceived the See also:

• IDEA (Gr. Ibia, connected with i&eiv, to see; cf. Lat. species from specere, to look at)

idea of the See also:

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

journal-affiche, and after the See also:

• ARREST (Fr. arrester, arreeter, to stop or stay)

arrest of the See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king at Varennes in See also:

• JUNE

June 1791 he placarded a large printed See also:

• SHEET

sheet on all the walls of Paris twice a See also:

• WEEK (from A.S. wicu, Germanic *wikon, probably=change, turn)

week, under the See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title of the Ami dot Citoyens, journal fraternel . This enterprise, of which the expenses were defrayed by the Jacobin See also:

• CLUB (connected with " clump ")

Club, made him well known to the revolutionary leaders; and he made himself still more conspicuous in organizing the See also:

• GREAT

great " Fete de la Liberte " on the 15th of See also:

• APRIL

April 1792. in See also:

• HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of the released soldiers of See also:

• CHATEAU (from Lat. castellum, fortress, through O. Fr. chastel, chasteau)

Chateau-Vieux, with See also:

• COLLOT

Collot d'llerbois . On the 8th of See also:

• JULY

July 1792, he was the spokes-See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man of a deputation of the See also:

• SECTION
• SECTION (Lat. sectio, cutting, secare, to cut)

section of the Place Royale which demanded from the legislative See also:

• ASSEMBLY, UNLAWFUL

assembly the reinstatement of the See also:

• MAYOR (Lat. major, greater)
• MAYOR, JOHN EYTON BICKERSTETH (1825– )

mayor, See also:

• JEROME, JEROME KLAPKA (1859– )
• JEROME, ST (HIERONYMUS, in full EUSEBIUS SOPHRONIUS HIERONYMUS) (c. 340–420)

Jerome Petion, and the procureur, P . L . See also:

• MANUEL, EUGENE (1823–1901)
• MANUEL, JACQUES ANTOINE (1775-1827)
• MANUEL, LOUIS PIERRE (1751-1793)

Manuel, and he was one of the most active popular leaders in the attack upon the Tuileries on the loth of See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August, on which See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day he was appointed secretary or clerk to the revolutionary See also:

• COMMUNE (Med. Lat. communia, Lat. communis, common)
• COMMUNE, MEDIEVAL

commune of Paris . In this capacity he exhibited an almost feverish activity; he perpetually appeared at the See also:

• BAR
• BAR (0. Fr. barre, Late Lat. barra, origin unknown)
• BAR, CONFEDERATION OF
• BAR, FRANCOIS DE (1538-1606)
• BAR, THE

bar of the assembly on behalf of the commune; he announced the massacres of See also:

• SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September in the prisons in terms of See also:

• APOLOGY (from Gr. &aoXoyia, defence)

apology and praise; and he sent off the famous circular of the 3rd of September to the provinces, recommending them to do likewise . He had several persons imprisoned in See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order to See also:

• SAVE, or SAVA (Ger. Sau; Hungarian Szdva; Lat. Savus)

save them from the fury of the See also:

• MOB

mob, and protected several suspects himself . At the See also:

• CLOSE
• CLOSE (from Lat. clausum, shut)
• CLOSE, MAXWELL HENRY (1822-1903)

close of the See also:

• MONTH
• MONTH (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Mond, Du. maand, Dan. maaned, &c., and cognate with Lat. mensis, Gr. µi7v, &c., in other branches of the Indo-Germanic family; all ultimately from the root seen in the word for the moon in nearly all those languages

month he resigned his See also:

• POST

post on being elected, in spite of his youth, a 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 to the See also:

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

Convention by the department of See also:

• SEINE
• SEINE (Lat. Sequana)
• SEINE, or SEAN (O. Fr. seigne, mod. seine, Lat. sagena, Gr. vaytivrl, a draw-net)

Seine-et-See also:

• OISE

Oise, and he began his legislative career by defending the conduct of the Commune during the massacres . He took his seat upon the See also:

• MOUNTAIN (0. Fr. montaigne; popular Lat. montanea, an adjectival form from the classical mons, montis, whence Eng. " mount," a form usually used along with the name of an individual mountain, e.g. Mt Everest)
• MOUNTAIN, THE (La Montagne)

Mountain, and showed himself one of the most vigorous See also:

• JACOBINS, THE

Jacobins, particularly in his See also:

• DEFENCE
• DEFENCE (Lat. defendere, to defend)

defence of See also:

• MARAT, JEAN PAUL (1743-1793)

Marat, on the 26th of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1793; he voted for the See also:

• EXECUTION (from Lat. ex-sequor, exsecutus, follow or carry out)

execution of the king, and was elected a member of the See also:

• COMMITTEE (from commute, an Anglo-Fr. past participle of commettre, Lat. committere, to entrust; the modern Fr. equivalent comite is derived from the Eng.)

Committee of See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

General See also:

• SECURITY (Lat. securus, free from care, safe)

Security on the 21st of See also:

• JANUARY

January 1793 .

After a See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short See also:

• MISSION

mission in the western provinces he returned to Paris, and took an active See also:

• PART

part in the coups d'etat of the 31st of May and the 2nd of June, which resulted in the overthrow of the See also:

• GIRONDISTS (Fr. Girondins)

Girondists . For the next few months he remained comparatively quiet, but on the 23rd of September 1793, he was sent with See also:

• CLAUDE, JEAN (1619-1687)

Claude See also:

• ALEXANDRE, NOEL (NATALIS ALEXANDER) (1639-1724)

Alexandre Ysabeau (1754-1831) on his mission to See also:

• BORDEAUX

Bordeaux . This was the monthin which the Terror was organized under the superintendence of the Committees of Public Safety and General Security . See also:

• TALLIEN, JEAN LAMBERT (1767-1820)

Tallien showed himself one of the most vigorous of the See also:

• PRO

pro-consuls sent over See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France to establish the Terror in the provinces; though with but few adherents, he soon awed the great See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city into quiet . It was at this moment that the See also:

• ROMANCE

romance of Tallien's See also:

• LIFE

life commenced . Among his prisoners was Therese, the divorced wife of the See also:

• COMTE, AUGUSTE [ISIDORE AUGUSTE MARIE FRANCOIS XAVIER] (1798-1857)

comte de Fontenay, and daughter of the See also:

• SPANISH

Spanish banker, See also:

• FRANCOIS (1558-1614)

Francois See also:

• CABARRUS, FRANCOIS (1752-1810)

Cabarrus, one of the most fascinating See also:

• WOMEN

women of her dine, and Tallien not only spared her life but See also:

• FELL
• FELL, JOHN (1625-1686)

fell in love with her . Suspected of " Moderatism " on See also:

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

account of this incident, especially when he was recalled to Paris, Tallien increased, in See also:

• APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

appearance, his revolutionary zeal, but Therese See also:

• ABATED

abated his revolutionary ardour, and from the lives she saved by her entreaties she received the name of " Our See also:

• LADY (0. Eng. hlaefdige, Mid. Eng. ldfdi, lavedi; the first part of the word is hldf, loaf, bread, as in the corresponding hldford, lord; the second part is usually taken to be from the root dig-, to knead, seen also in " dough "; the sense development fr

Lady of See also:

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

Thermidor," after the 9th of Thermidor . Tallien was even elected See also:

• PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

president of the Convention on the 24th 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 1794 . But the Terror could not be maintained at the same See also:

• PITCH
• PITCH, MUSICAL

pitch: See also:

• ROBESPIERRE, MAXIMILIEN FRANCOIS MARIE ISIDORE DE (175$-1794)

Robespierre began to see that he must strike at many of his own colleagues in the committees if he was to carry out his theories, and Tallien was one of the men condemned with them . They determined to strike first, and on the great day of Thermidor it was Tallien who, urged on by the danger in which his beloved See also:

• LAY

lay, opened the attack upon Robespierre . The See also:

• MOVEMENT

movement was successful; Robespierre and his See also:

• FRIENDS, SOCIETY
• FRIENDS, SOCIETY OF

friends were guillotined; and Tallien, as the leading Thermidorian, was elected to the Committee of Public Safety . He showed himself a vigorous Thermidorian; he was instrumental in suppressing the Revolutionary Tribunal and the Jacobin Club; he attacked J .

B . See also:

• CARRIER
• CARRIER, JEAN BAPTISTE (1956-1794)

Carrier and See also:

• JOSEPH
• JOSEPH, COMTE DE (1785-1870)
• JOSEPH, FATHER (FRANCOIS LECLERC DU TREMBLAY) (1577-1638)

Joseph Lebon, the representants en mission of See also:

• NANTES
• NANTES, EDICT OF

Nantes and See also:

• ARRAS

Arras; and he fought bravely against the insurgents of Prairial . In all these months he was supported by Therese, whom he married on the 26th of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1794, and who became the See also:

• LEADER, BENJAMIN WILLIAMS (1831– )

leader of the social life of Paris . His last See also:

• POLITICAL

political achievement was in July 1795, when he was See also:

• PRESENT

present with See also:

• HOCHE, LAZARE (1768-1797)

Hoche at the destruction of the See also:

• ARMY
• ARMY (from Fr. armee, Lat. armata)

army of the emigres at See also:

• QUIBERON, CAMPAIGN AND BATTLE OF

Quiberon, and ordered the executions which followed . After the close of the Convention Tallien's political importance came to an end, for, though he sat in the See also:

• COUNCIL (Lat. concilium, from cum, together, and the root cal, to call)

Council of Five See also:

• HUNDRED

Hundred, the moderates attacked him as terrorist, and the extreme party as a renegade . Madame Tallien also tired of him, and became the See also:

• MISTRESS

mistress of the See also:

• RICH, BARNABE (c. 1540-1617)
• RICH, CLAUDIUS JAMES (1787-1821)
• RICH, JOHN (1692-1761)
• RICH, PENELOPE, LADY (c. 1562–1607)
• RICH, RICHARD, 1ST BARON RICH (1490?-1567)

rich banker Ouvrard . See also:

• BONAPARTE

Bonaparte, however, who is said to have been introduced by him to See also:

• BARRAS, PAUL FRANCOIS NICOLAS, COMTE DE (1755-1829)

Barras, took him to See also:

• EGYPT

Egypt in his great expedition of June 1798, and after the See also:

• CAPTURE (from Lat. capere, to take; Fr. prise maritime; Ger. Wegnahme)

capture of See also:

• CAIRO
• CAIRO (Arabic Misr-al-Kahira, or simply Misr)

Cairo he edited the See also:

• OFFICIAL (Late Lat. QJicialis, for class. Lat. apparitor, from officium, office, duty)

official journal there, the See also:

• DECADE (from Gr. Oka, ten)

Decade Egyptienne . But General J . F . Menou sent him away from Egypt, and on his passage he was captured by an See also:

• ENGLISH

English cruiser and taken to See also:

• LONDON

London, where he had a See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good reception among the Whigs and was well received by See also:

• FOX
• FOX, C
• FOX, CHARLES JAMES (1749-1806)
• FOX, EDWARD (c. 1496-1538)
• FOX, GEORGE (1624-1691)
• FOX, RICHARD (c. 1448-1528)
• FOX, ROBERT WERE (1789—1877)
• FOX, SIR STEPHEN (1627–1716)
• FOX, SIR WILLIAM (1812-1893)

Fox . On returning to France in 1802 he obtained a See also:

• DIVORCE

divorce from his wife (who in 1805 married the comte de Caraman, later See also:

• PRINCE
• PRINCE (Lat. princeps, from primus capio, " I am the first to take "; Ital. principe, Fr. prince)

prince de See also:

• CHIMAY

Chimay), and was See also:

• LEFT

left 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 without employment . At last, through See also:

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

Fouche and Talleyrand, he got the See also:

• APPOINTMENT, POWER OF

appointment of See also:

• CONSUL
• CONSUL (in Gr. generally ihraros,ashortened form of errpavgybs 8hraeos, i.e. praetor maximus)

consul at See also:

• ALICANTE

Alicante, and remained there until he lost the sight of one 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 from yellow See also:

• FEVER (Lat. febris, connected with fervere, to burn)

fever .

On returning to Paris he lived on his See also:

• HALF

half-pay until 1815, when he received the favour of not being exiled like the other regicides . His latter days were spent in poverty; he had to sell his books to get See also:

• BREAD

bread . He died in Paris on the 16th of See also:

• NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 182o . Tallien left an interesting Discours sur See also:

• LES

les causes qui ont prqduit la Revolution frangaise (Paris, 1791, in 8vo) and a Memoire sur l'See also:

• ADMINISTRATION (Lat. administrare, to serve)

administration de dEEgypte a l'arrivee See also:

• DES

des See also:

• FRANCAIS, ANTOINE, COUNT (1756-1836)

Francais . See Tallien et l'Expedition d'Egypte, in La Revolution Frantaise: Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine, t. iii. p . 269 . On Madame Tallien see Arsene See also:

• HOUSSAYE, ARSINE (1815-1896)

Houssaye, Notre See also:

• DAME
• DAME (through the Fr. from Lat. domina, mistress, lady, the feminine of dominus, master, lord)

Dame de Thermidor (Paris, 1866) ; J . Turquan, Souveraines et grandes Dames: La citoyenne Tallien, temoignages des contemporains et documents inedits (Paris, 1898); and 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 Gastine, La belle Tallien (1909) .