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CAZALES, JACQUES See also:ANTOINE See also:MARIE DE (1758-18os) , See also:French orator and politician, was See also:born at See also:Grenade in See also:Languedoc, of a See also:family of the See also:lower See also:nobility. Before 1789 he was a See also:cavalry officer, but in that See also:year was returned as See also:deputy to the states See also:general. In the Constituent See also:Assembly he belonged to the See also:section of moderate royalists who sought to set up a constitution on the See also:English See also:model, and his speeches in favour of retaining the right of See also:war and See also:peace in the See also:king's hands and on the organization of the judiciary gained the See also:applause even of his opponents. Apart from his eloquence, which gave him a See also:place among the finest orators of the Assembly, Cazales is mainly remembered for a See also:duel fought with See also:Barnave. After the insurrection of the loth of See also:August 1792, which led to the downfall of See also:royalty, Cazales emigrated. He fought in the See also:army of the emigres against revolutionary See also:France, lived in See also:Switzerland and in See also:England, and did not return to France until 1803. He died on the 24th of See also:November 18o5. His son; Edmond de Cazales, wrote philosophical and religious studies. See Discours de Cazales, edited by Chare (See also:Paris, 1821), with an introduction; F. A.

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