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See also:LACRETELLE, See also:PIERRE 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 DE (1751-1824) , See also:French politician and writer, was See also:born at See also:Metz on the 9th of See also:October 1751. He practised as a See also:barrister in See also:Paris; and under the Revolution was elected as a depute suppleant in the Constituent See also:Assembly, and later as See also:deputy in the Legislative Assembly. He belonged to the moderate party known as the " Feuillants," but after the loth of See also:August 1792 he ceased to take See also:part in public See also:life. In 1803 he became a member of the See also:Institute, taking the See also:place of La Harpe. Under the Restoration he was one of the See also:chief editors of the Minerve francaise; he wrote also an See also:essay, Sur le 18 See also:Brumaire (1799), some Fragments politiques et litteraires (1817), and a See also:treatise See also:Des partis politiques et des factions de la pretendue aristocratie d'aujourd'hui (1819).
His younger See also:brother, See also:JEAN See also:CHARLES DOMINIQUE DE LACRETELLE, called Lacretelle le jeune (1766-1855), historian and journalist, was also born at Metz on the 3rd of See also:September 1766. He was called to Paris by his brother in 1787, and during the Revolution belonged, like him, to the party of the Feuillants. He was for some 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 secretary to the duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, the celebrated philanthropist, and afterwards joined the See also:staff of the See also:Journal de Paris, then managed by Suard, and where he had as colleagues See also:Andre See also:Chenier and See also:Antoine See also:Roucher. He made no See also:attempt to hide his monarchist sympathies, and this, together with the way in which he reported the trial and See also:death of Louis XVI., brought him in peril of his life; to avoid this
danger he enlisted in the See also:army, but after See also:Thermidor he returned to Paris and to his newspaper See also:work. He was involved in the royalist See also:movement of the 13th Vendemiaire, and condemned to See also:deportation after the 18th Fructidor; but, thanks to powerful See also:influence, he was See also:left " forgotten " in See also:prison till after the 18th Brumaire, when he was set at See also:liberty by See also:Fouche. Under the See also:Empire he was appointed a See also:professor of See also:history in the Faculte des lettres of Paris (18o9), and elected as a member of the Academie francaise (1811). In 1827 he was See also:prime mover in the protest made by the French See also:Academy against the See also:minister Peyronnet's See also:law on the See also:press, which led to the failure of that measure, but this step cost him, as it did See also:Villemain, his See also:post as censeur royal. Under Louis Philippe he devoted himself entirely to his teaching and See also:literary work. In 1848 he retired to See also:Macon; but there, as in Paris, he was the centre of a brilliant circle, for he was a wonderful causeur, and an equally See also:good listener, and had many interesting experiences to recall. He died on the 26th of See also:March 1855. His son Pierre See also:Henri (1815—1899) was a humorous writer and politician of purely contemporary See also:interest.
J. C. Lacretelle's chief work is a See also:series of histories of the 18th See also:century, the Revolution and its sequel: Precis historique de la Revolution francaise, appended to the history of Rabaud St See also:Etienne, and partly written in the prison of La Force (5 vols., 18o1–18o6) ; Histoire de See also:France See also:pendant le X VIII' siecle (6 vols., 1808) ; Histoire de l'Assemblee Constituante (2 vols., 1821); L'Assemblee Legislative (1822); La See also:Convention Nationale (3 vols., 1824–1825); Histoire de France depuis la restauration (1829–1835); Histoire du consulat et de l'empire (4 vols., 1846). The author was a moderate and See also:fair-minded See also:man, but possessed neither See also:great See also:powers of See also:style, nor striking See also:historical insight, nor the See also:special historian's See also:power of See also:writing See also:minute accuracy of detail with breadth of view. See also:Carlyle's sarcastic remark on Lacretelle's history of the Revolution, that it " exists, but does not profit much," is partly true of all his books. He had been an See also:eye-See also:witness of and an actor in the events which he describes, but his testimony must be accepted with caution.
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