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CLAUDE, JEAN (1619-1687)
CLAUDE See also:
ALEXANDRE, NOEL (NATALIS ALEXANDER) (1639-1724)
ALEXANDRE (1766-1795) , See also:

French publicist and statesman, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Bourg on the 13th of See also:

APRIL

April 1766, the son of a postmaster. The boy went See also:

early to See also:

sea, and saw fighting when he was twelve years old; in 1790 he settled at See also:

MEUDON

Meudon, and began to make See also:

GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good his lack of See also:

EDUCATION

education. As procureur-See also:

general-See also:

SYNDIC (Late Lat. syndicus, Gr. vivv&aos, one who helps in a court of justice, an advocate, representative, crap, with, and Sirc77, justice)

syndic of the See also:

DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department of See also:

Seine-et-See also:

OISE

Oise, in See also:

AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August, 1792, he had to See also:

SUPPLY (through Fr. from Lat. supplere, to fill up)

supply the inhabitants with See also:

food, and fulfilled his difficult functions with See also:

ENERGY (from the Gr. ivipyela; iv, in, ipyov, work)

energy and tact. In the See also:

Convention, which he entered on the See also:

DEATH

death of See also:

HERAULT

Herault de Sechelles, he took his seat on the benches of the See also:

Mountain. He conducted a See also:

MISSION

mission to the armies of the See also:

RHINE (Lat. Rhenus, Ger. Rhein, Fr. Rhin, Dutch Rhyn, or Rijn)

Rhine and the Moselle with creditable moderation, and was a consistent See also:

ADVOCATE (Lat. advocatus, from advocare, to summon, especially in law to call in the aid of a counsel or witness, and so generally to summon to one's assistance)

advocate of See also:

peace within the See also:

REPUBLIC (Lat. respublica, a commonweal or common-wealth)

republic. Nevertheless, he was a determined opponent of the See also:

COUNTER

counter-revolution; which he denounced in the Jacobin See also:

CLUB (connected with " clump ")

Club and from the Mountain after his recall to See also:

Paris, following on the revolution of the 9th See also:

THERMIDOR (from Gr. BEpµrt, heat, and & pov, gift)

Thermidor (See also:

JULY

July 27, 1794). He was one of those who protested against the readmission of Louvet and other survivors of the Girondin party to the Convention in See also:

March 1795; and, when the populace invaded the legislature on the 1st Prairial (May 20, 1795) and compelled the deputies to legislate in accordance with their desires, he proposed the immediate See also:

ESTABLISHMENT (0. Fr. establissement, Fr. etablissement, late Norm. Fr. establishement, from O. Fr. establir, Fr. etablir, Lat. stabilire, to make stable)

establishment of a See also:

SPECIAL

special See also:

COMMISSION (from Lat. commissio, committere)

commission which should assure the See also:

EXECUTION (from Lat. ex-sequor, exsecutus, follow or carry out)

execution of the proposed changes and assume the functions of the various committees. The failure of the insurrection involved the fall of those deputies who had supported the demands of the populace. Before the See also:

close of the sitting, Goujon, with Romme, Duroi, Duquesnoy, Bourbotte, Soubrany and others were put under See also:

ARREST (Fr. arrester, arreeter, to stop or stay)

arrest by their colleagues, and on their way to the chateauof Taurean in See also:

BRITTANY

Brittany had a narrow See also:

ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli

escape from a See also:

mob at See also:

AVRANCHES

Avranches. They were brought back to Paris for trial before a military commission on the 17th of See also:

JUNE

June, and, though no See also:

PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)

proof of their complicity in organizing the insurrection could be found—they were, in fact, with the exception of Goujon and Bourbotte, strangers to one another—they were condemned. In accordance with a pre-arranged See also:

plan,. they attempted See also:

SUICIDE (from Lat. sui, of oneself, and cidium, from cued ere, to kill)

suicide on the See also:

stair-See also:

case leading from the See also:

court-See also:

ROOM

room with a See also:

KNIFE (0. E. cuff, a word appearing in different forms in many Teutonic languages, cf. Du. knijf, Ger. Kneif, a shoe-maker's knife, Swed. knif; the ultimate origin is unknown; Skeat finds the origin in the root of " nip," formerly " knip "; Fr. canif is a

knife which Goujon had successfully concealed. Romme, Goujon and Duquesnoy succeeded, but the other three merely inflicted wounds which did not prevent their being taken immediately to the See also:

GUILLOTINE

guillotine.

With their deaths the Mountain ceased to exist as a party. See J. See also:

CLARETIE, JULES

Claretie, See also:

Les Derniers Montagnards, histoire de l'insurrection de Prairial an III d'apres les documents (1867); Defense du representant du peuple Goujon (Paris, no date), with the letters and a hymn written by Goujon during his imprisonment. For other documents see See also:

Maurice See also:

TOURNEUX, JEAN MAURICE (1849— )

Tourneux (Paris, 1890, vol. i., pp. 422-425).

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