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See also:CHALIER, See also:JOSEPH (1747—1793) , See also:French Revolutionist. He was destined by his See also:family for the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church, but entered business, and became a partner in a See also:firm at See also:Lyons for which he travelled in the See also:Levant, in See also:Italy, See also:Spain and See also:Portugal. He was in See also:Paris in 1789, and entered into relations with See also:Marat, Camille See also:Desmoulins and See also:Robespierre. On his return to Lyons, Chalier was the first to be named member of the municipal See also:bureau. He organized the See also:national guard, applied the See also:civil constitution of the See also:clergy, and regulated the finances of the See also:city so as to tax the See also:rich heavily and spare the poor. Denounced to the Legislative See also:Assembly by the See also:directory of the See also:department of See also:Rhone-et-See also:Loire for having made a nocturnal domiciliary perquisition, he was sent to the See also:bar of the Assembly, which approved of his conduct. In the See also:election for See also:mayor of Lyons, in See also:November 1792, he was defeated by a Royalist. Then Chalier became the orator and See also:leader of the See also:Jacobins of Lyons, and induced the other revolutionary clubs and the See also:commune of his city to See also:arrest a See also:great number of Royalists in the See also:night of the 5th and 6th of See also:February 1793. The mayor, supported by the national guard, opposed this project. Chalier demanded of the See also:Convention the See also:establishment of a revolutionary tribunal and the See also:levy of a revolutionary See also:army at Lyons. The Convention refused, and the See also:anti-revolutionary party, encouraged by this refusal, took See also:action. On the 29th and 3oth of May 1793 the sections See also:rose; the Jacobins were dispossessed of the See also:municipality and Chalier arrested. On the 15th of See also:July, in spite of the 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 of the Convention, he was brought before the criminal tribunal of the Rhone-et-Loire, condemned to See also:death, and guillotined the next See also:day. The Terrorists paid a veritable See also:worship to his memory, as to amartyr of See also:Liberty.
See N. Wahl, "Etude sur Chalier," in Revue historique, t. xxxiv.; and See also:Les Premieres Annees-de laRevolution d See also:Lyon (Paris, 1894).
End of Article: CHALIER, JOSEPH (1747—1793)
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