See also:PIERRE See also:FRANCOIS See also:TISSOT (1768–1854)
, See also:French See also:man of letters, was See also:born at See also:Versailles on the loth of See also:March 1768
.
His See also:father, a native of See also:Savoy, was a perfumer appointed by royal See also:warrant to the See also:court
.
At the See also:age of eighteen he entered the 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 of a procureur of the See also:Chatelet, 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 learn the practice of the See also:law; but he cultivated the See also:Muses rather than the study of See also:procedure, and, being a handsome youth, was occasionally invited to the fetes of the Trianon
.
He devoted himself ardently to the cause of the Revolution, in spite of the fact that it had ruined his See also:family
.
While with the procureur he had made the acquaintance of See also:Alexandre See also:Goujon, and they soon became inseparable; he married Goujon's See also:sister, Sophie (March 5, 1793), and when his See also:brother-in-law was elected See also:deputy to the See also:Convention and sent on a See also:mission to the armies of the Moselle and See also:Rhine, See also:Tissot went with him as his secretary; he then returned to See also:Paris and resumed his more modest position of secretaire See also:general See also:des subsistances
.
On the 1st of Prairial he tried in vain to See also:save his brother-in-law, who had been involved in the proscription of the " last Mon tagnards "; all he could do was to give Goujon the See also:knife with which he killed himself in order to 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 the See also:guillotine, and he afterwards avenged his memory in the Souvenirs de Prairial
.
He also took under his care Goujon's widow and See also:children
.
His connexion with the Jacobin party caused him to be condemned to See also:deportation after the See also:attempt of the 3rd Nivose in the See also:year IX., but See also:Bonaparte, having been persuaded to read his See also:translation of the See also:Bucolics, struck ,his name off the See also:list
.
Though still a friend of the See also:Republic, Tissot was henceforth an admirer of the First See also:Consul; he celebrated in See also:verse several of the See also:emperor's victories, and the arrival in See also:France of See also:Marie-See also:Louise (181o)
.
So far he had lived on the income derived from a factory of See also:horn lanterns in the See also:Faubourg St See also:Antoine; and, being at last in fairly comfortable circumstances he now devoted himself to literature
.
The See also:abbe See also:Delille took him as his assistant at the See also:College de France; and Tissot succeeded him as See also:head of it (1813); the emperor signed the See also:appointment as a See also:reward for a poem composed by Tissot on his victory at See also:Lutzen
.
He was removed from this See also:post, however, in 1821, in consequence of the publication of a Precis sur See also:les guerres de la revolution, in which rather colourless See also:work he had dared to say that the Convention had saved France and vanquished the See also:Coalition
.
Deprived of his post, Tissot was See also:left still more See also:free to attack the See also:government in the See also:press
.
He was one of the founders of the newspaper Le Constitutionnel, and of the See also:review, the Minerve
.
Without laying stress on his See also:literary See also:works (Traite de la poesie latine, 1821; translation of the Bucolics, 3rd ed., 1823; Etudes sur Virgile, 1825) we should mention the Memoires historiques et militaires sur See also:Carnot, which he based on the papers left by the " Organizer of Victory " (1824), the Discours du General See also:Foy (1826) and a Histoire de la guerre de
F.-See also:TISZA
la Peninsule also inspired by General Foy (1827)
.
On the overthrow of See also:Charles X., Tissot made a successful effort to regain his position at the College de France; he was also elected as a member of the French See also:Academy on the See also:death of See also:Dacier (1833)
.
It was then that he published his See also:chief works: Histoire de See also:Napoleon (2 vols., 1833), and Histoire See also:complete de la revolution francaise de 1789 d 18o6 (6 vols., 1833-1836), full of inconsistencies and omissions, but containing a number of the author's reminiscences; in some places they become practically See also:memoirs, and are consequently of real value
.
In 184o a See also:carriage See also:accident almost cost him his sight; he had to find an assistant, and passed the last years of his See also:life in circumstances of increasing suffering, amid which, however, he preserved his cheerfulness and goodness of See also:heart
.
He died at Paris on the 7th of See also:April 18 J4
.
See an excellent See also:essay on Tissot by P
.
Fromageot in the Revue de Versailles et de See also:Seine-et-See also:Oise, in 1901
.
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