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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 695 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COLLOT D'HERBOIS, See also:

JEAN See also:MARIE (1750-1796), See also:French revolutionist, was a Parisian by See also:birth and an actor by profession. After figuring for some years at the See also:principal provincial theatres of See also:France and See also:Holland, he became director of the playhouse at See also:Geneva. He had from the first a See also:share in the revolutionary See also:independent preacher and lecturer, and in 1859, having joined the Unitarian See also:Church, became a missionary of that church in See also:Chicago, See also:Illinois. In 186o he organized and became pastor of the Unity Church, the second Unitarian church in Chicago. Under his guidance the church See also:grew to be one of the strongest of that See also:denomination in the See also:West, and Mr See also:Collyer himself came to be looked upon as one of the foremost See also:pulpit orators in the See also:country. During the See also:Civil See also:War he was active in the See also:work of the Sanitary See also:Commission. In 1879 he See also:left Chicago and became pastor of the church of the See also:Messiah in New See also:York See also:city, and in 1903 he became pastor See also:emeritus. He published: Nature and See also:Life (1867); A See also:Man in See also:Earnest: Life of A. H. See also:Conant (1868); The Life That Now is (1871); The See also:Simple Truth (1877); Talks to See also:Young Men: With Asides to Young See also:Women (1888); Things New and Old (1893); See also:Father See also:Taylor (1906); and A See also:History of the See also:Town and See also:Parish of See also:Ilkley (with Horsefall See also:Turner, 1886).

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