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See also:JORDAN, CAMILLE (1771—1821) , See also:French politician, was See also:born in See also:Lyons on the 11th of See also:January 1771 of a well-to-do See also:mercantile See also:family. He was educated in Lyons, and from an See also:early See also:age was imbued with royalist principles. He actively supported by See also:voice, See also:pen and See also:musket his native See also:town in its resistance to the See also:Convention; and when Lyons See also:fell, in See also:October 1793, Jordan fled. From See also:Switzerland he passed in six months to See also:England, where he formed acquaintances with other French exiles and with prominent See also:British statesmen, and imbibed a lasting admiration for the See also:English Constitution. In 1796 he returned to See also:France, and next See also:year he was sent by Lyons as a See also:deputy to the See also:Council of Five See also:Hundred. There his eloquence won him See also:consideration. He earnestly supported what he See also:felt to be true freedom, especially in matters of religious See also:worship, though the energetic See also:appeal on behalf of 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 bells in his Rapport sur la liberte See also:des cultes procured him the See also:sobriquet of Jordan-Cloche. Proscribed at the coup d'etat of the 18th Fructidor (4th of See also:September 1797) he escaped to See also:Basel. Thence he went to See also:Germany, where he met See also:Goethe. Back again in France by 'Soo, he boldly published in 1802 his Vrai See also:sens du See also:vote See also:national pour le consulat d See also:vie, in which he exposed the ambitious schemes of See also:Bonaparte. He was unmolested, however, and during the First See also:Empire lived in See also:literary retirement at Lyons with his wife and family, producing for the Lyons See also:academy occasional papers on the See also:Influence reciproque de l'eloquence sur la Revolution et de la Revolution sur l'eloquence; Etudes sur See also:Klopstock, &c. At the restoration in 1814 he again emerged into public See also:life. By See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XVIII. he was ennobled and named a councillor of See also:state; and from 1816 he sat in the chamber of deputies as representative of See also:Ain. At first he sup-ported the See also:ministry, but when they began to show signs of re-See also:action he separated from them, and gradually came to be at the See also:head of the constitutional opposition. His speeches in the chamber were always eloquent and powerfuL Though warned by failing See also:health to resign, Camille Jordan remained at his See also:post till his See also:death at See also:Paris, on the 19th of May 1821.
To his pen we owe Lettre a M. Lamourette (1791); Histoire de la See also:conversion dune See also:dame Parisienne (1792) ; La Loi et la See also:religion vengees (1792); Adresse a ses commettants sur la revolution du 4 Septembre 1797 (1797) ; Sur See also:les troubles de See also:Lyon (1818) ; La Session de 1817 (1818). His Discours were collected in 1818. The " Fragments . choisis," and See also:translations from the See also:German, were published in L'Abeille francaise. Besides the various histories of the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time, see further details vol. x. of the Revue encyclopedique; a See also:paper on Jordan and Madame de See also:Stael, by C. A. Sainte-Beuve, in the Revue des deux mondes for See also:March 1868 and R. Boubee, " Camille Jordan a See also:Weimar," in the Correspondant (1901), ecv. 718—738 and 948-970.
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