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See also:CARREL, See also:JEAN See also:BAPTISTE See also:NICOLAS ARMAND (18o0-1836) , See also:French publicist, was See also:born at See also:Rouen on the 8th of May 1800. His See also:father was a See also:merchant in See also:good circumstances, and he received a liberal See also:education at the See also:college of Rouen, afterwards attending the military school at St Cyr. He had an intense admiration for the See also:great generals of See also:Napoleon, and his uncompromising spirit, bold uprightness and See also:independent views marked him as a See also:man to be suspected. Entering the See also:army as sub-See also:lieutenant he took a See also:secret but active See also:part in the unsuccessful See also:conspiracy of See also:Belfort. On the outbreak of See also:war with See also:Spain in 1823, Carrel, whose sympathies were altogether with the liberal cause, sent in his resignation, and succeeded in effecting his See also:escape to See also:Barcelona. He enrolled himself in the See also:foreign See also:legion and fought gallantly against his former comrades. Near Figuieres the legion was compelled to surrender, and Carrel became the prisoner of his old See also:general, Damas. There was considerable difficulty about the terms of See also:capitulation, and one See also:council of war condemned Carrel to See also:death. Fortunately some informality prevented the See also:sentence being executed, and he was soon afterwards acquitted and set at See also:liberty. His career as a soldier being then finally closed, Carrel resolved to devote himself to literature. He came to See also:Paris and began as secretary to Augustin See also:Thierry, the historian. His services were found to be of great value, and he not only obtained admirable training in habits of See also:composition, but was led to investigate for himself some of the most interesting portions of See also:English See also:history. His first See also:work of importance (he had already written one or two See also:historical abstracts) was the History of the See also:Counter-Revolution in See also:England, an exceedingly able See also:political study of the events which culminated in the Revolution of 1688. He gradually became known as a skilful writer in various See also:periodicals; but it was not till he formed his connexion with the See also:National that he became a See also:power in See also:France. The National was at first conducted by See also:Thiers, See also:Mignet and Carrel in See also:con-junction; but after the revolution of See also:July, Thiers and Mignet assumed See also:office, and the whole management See also:fell into the hands of Carrel. Under his direction this See also:journal became the first political See also:organ in Paris. His See also:judgment was unusually clear, his principles solid and well founded, his sincerity and honesty beyond question; and to these qualities he See also:united an admirable See also:style, lucid, precise and well balanced. As the defender of See also:democracy he had frequently to See also:face serious dangers. He was once in Ste Pelagic, and several times before the tribunal to See also:answer for his journal. Nor was he in less danger from private enmities. Before his last fatal encounter he was twice engaged in duels with editors of See also:rival papers. The dispute which led to the See also:duel with Emile de See also:Girardin was one of small moment, and might have been amicably arranged had it not been for some slight obstinacy on Carrel's part. The See also:meeting took See also:place on the See also:morning of the 22nd of July 1836. De Girardin was wounded in the thigh, Carrel in the See also:groin. The See also:wound was at once seen to be dangerous, and Carrel was conveyed to the See also:house of a friend, where he died after two days' suffering.
His See also:works, with See also:biographical See also:notice by See also:Littre, were published in five volumes (Paris, 1858). A See also:fine estimate of his See also:character will be found in See also: Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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