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See also:DUPORT, ADRIEN (1759-1798) , See also:French politician, was See also:born in See also:Paris. He became an influential See also:advocate in the See also:parlement, becoming prominent in opposition to the ministers See also:Calonne and Lomenie de Brienne. Elected in 1789 to the states-See also:general by the noblesse of Paris, he soon revealed a remarkable eloquence. A learned jurist, he contributed during the Constituent See also:Assembly to the organization of the judiciary of See also:France. His See also:report of the 29th of See also:March 1790 is especially notable. In it he advocated trial by See also:jury; but he was unable to obtain the jury See also:system in See also:civil cases. Duport had formed with See also:Barnave and See also:Alexandre de See also:Lameth a See also:group known as the " triumvirate," which was popular at first. But after the See also:flight of the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king to Varennes, Duport sought to defend him; as member of the See also:commission charged to question the king, he tried to excuse him, and on the 14th of See also:July 1791 he opposed the formal See also:accusation. He was thus led to See also:separate himself from the See also:Jacobins and to join the Feuillant party. After the Constituent Assembly he became See also:president of the criminal tribunal of Paris, but was arrested during the insurrection of the loth of See also:August 1792. He escaped, thanks probably to the complicity of See also:Danton, returned to France after the 9th of See also:Thermidor of the See also:year II., See also:left it in See also:- EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap, consul, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)
exile again after the republican coup d'etat of the 18th of Fructidor of the year V., and died at See also:Appenzell in See also:Switzerland in 1798.
See F. A. See also:Aulard, See also:Les Orateurs de la Constituante (2nd ed., Paris, 1905, 8vo).
End of Article: DUPORT, ADRIEN (1759-1798)
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