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LAMORICIERE, CHRISTOPHE See also:LEON See also:LOUIS JUCHAULT DE (18o6–1865) , See also:French See also:general, was See also:born at See also:Nantes on the 1th of See also:September 18o6, and entered the See also:Engineers in 1828. He served in the Algerian See also:campaigns from 183o onwards, and by 184o he had risen to the grade of marechal-de-See also:camp (See also:major-general). Three years later he was made a general of See also:division. He was one of the most distinguished and efficient of Bugeaud's generals, rendered See also:special service at See also:Isly (See also:August 14, 1844), acted temporarily as See also:governor-general of See also:Algeria, and finally effected the See also:capture of Abd el-Kader in 1847. Lamoriciere took some See also:part in the See also:political events of 1848, both as a member of the Chamber of Deputies and as a military See also:commander. Under the regime of General See also:Cavaignac he was for a See also:time See also:minister of See also:war. From 1848 to 1851 Lamoriciere was one of the most conspicuous opponents of the policy of Louis See also:Napoleon, and at the coup d'etat of the and of See also:December 1851 he was arrested and exiled. He refused to give in his See also:allegiance to the See also:emperor Napoleon III., and in 186o accepted the command of the papal See also:army, which he led in the See also:Italian See also:campaign of 186o. On the 18th of September of that See also:year he was severely defeated by the Italian army at Castelfidardo. His last years were spent in See also:complete retirement in See also:France (he had been allowed to return in 1857), and he died at Prouzel (See also:Somme) on the 11th of September 1865. See E. See also:Keller, Le General de Lamorici`ere (See also:Paris, 1873).

LA MOTHE LE VAYER, See also:

FRANCOIS DE (1588–1672), French writer, was born in Paris of a See also:noble See also:family of See also:Maine. His See also:father was an avocat at the See also:parlement of Paris and author of a curious See also:treatise on the functions of ambassadors, entitled Legatus, seu De legatorum privilegiis, officio et munere libellus (1579) and illustrated mainly from See also:ancient See also:history. Francois succeeded his father at the parlement, but gave up his See also:post about 1647 and devoted himself to travel and belles lettres. His Considerations sur l'eloquence francaise (1638) procured him See also:admission to the See also:Academy, and his De l'instruction de Mgr. le Dauphin (164o) attracted the See also:attention of See also:Richelieu. In 1649 See also:Anne of See also:Austria entrusted him with the See also:education of her second son and subsequently with the completion of Louis XIV.'s education, which had been very much neglected. The outcome of his pedagogic labours was a See also:series of books comprising the Geographic, Rhetorique, Morale, Economique, Politique, Logique, and Physique du See also:prince (1651–1658). The See also:king rewarded his See also:tutor by appointing him historiographer of France and councillor of See also:state. La Mothe Le Vayer died in Paris. Modest, sceptical,. and occasionally obscene in his Latin pieces and in his verses, he made himself a persona grata at the French See also:court, where libertinism in ideas and morals was hailed with relish. Besides his educational See also:works, he wrote Jugement sur See also:les anciens et principaux historiens grecs et Latins (1646); a treatise entitled Du peu de certitude qu'il y a en histoire (1668), which in a sense marks the beginning of See also:historical See also:criticism in France; and sceptical Dialogues, published posthumously under the See also:pseudonym of See also:Orosius Tubero. An incomplete edition of his works was published at See also:Dresden in 1756–1759. See See also:Bayle, Dictionnaire critique, See also:article "Vayer "; L.

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Etienne, Essai sur La Mothe Le Vayer (Paris, 1849). LA MOTTE, See also:ANTOINE HOUDAR DE (1672–1731), French author, was born in Paris on the 18th of See also:January 1672. In 1693 his See also:comedy Les Originaux proved a complete failure, which so depressed the author that he contemplated joining the See also:Trappists, but four years later he again began See also:writing operas and ballets, e.g. L'See also:Europe galante (1697), and tragedies; one of which, Ines de See also:Castro (1723), was produced with immense success at the See also:Theatre See also:Francais. He was a See also:champion of the moderns in the revived controversy of the ancients and moderns. Madame See also:Dacier had published (1699) a See also:translation of the Iliad, and La Motte, who knew no See also:Greek, made a translation (1714) in See also:verse founded on her See also:work. The nature of his work may be judged from his own expression: " I have taken the See also:liberty to See also:change what I thought disagreeable in it." He defended the moderns in the Discours sur Homere prefixed to his translation, and in his Reflexions sur la critique (1716). Apart from the merits of the controversy, it was conducted on La Motte's See also:side with a wit and politeness which compared very favourably with his opponent's methods. He was elected to the Academy in 1710, and soon after became See also:blind. La Motte carried on a See also:correspondence with the duchesse du Maine, and was the friend of See also:Fontenelle. He had the same freedom from See also:prejudice, the same inquiring mind as the latter, and it is on the excellent See also:prose in which his views are expressed that his reputation rests. He died in Paris on the 26th of December 1731.

His Euvres du thedtre (2 vols.) appeared in 1730, and his Euvres (to vols.) in 1754. See A. H. Rigault, Histoire de la querelle See also:

des anciens et des modernes (1859).

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