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LATOUCHE, HYACINTHE See also:JOSEPH See also:ALEXANDRE THABAUD DE [known as HENR11 (1785–1851), See also:French poet and novelist, was See also:born at La Chatre (See also:Indre) on the 2nd of See also:February 1785. Among his See also:works may be distinguished his comedies: Projets de sagesse (1811), and, in collaboration with Emile See also:Deschamps, Selgnours de See also:Florian (1818), which ran for a See also:hundred nights; also La Reine d'Espagne (1831), which proved too indecent for the public See also:taste; a novel, Fragoletla: See also:Naples et See also:Paris en 1799 (1829), which attained a success of notoriety; La Vallee aux coups (1833), a See also:volume of See also:prose essays and See also:verse; and two volumes of poems, See also:Les Adieux (1843) and Les Agrestes (1844). Latouche's See also:chief claim to remembrance is that he revealed to the See also:world the See also:genius of See also:Andre See also:Chenier, then only known to a limited few. The remains of the poet's See also:work had passed from the hands of See also:Daunou to Latouche, who had sufficient See also:critical insight instantly to recognize their value. In editing the first selection of Chenier's poems (1819) he made some trifling emendations, but did not, as See also:Beranger afterwards asserted, make See also:radical and unnecessary changes. Latouche was guilty of more than one See also:literary See also:fraud. He caused a licentious See also:story of his own to be attributed to the duchesse de Duras, the irreproachable author of Ourika. He made many enemies by malicious attacks on his contemporaries. The Constitutionnel was suppressed in 1817 by the See also:government for an obscure See also:political allusion in an See also:article by Latouche. He then undertook the management of the Mercure du XIX' siecle, and began a See also:bitter warfare against the See also:monarchy. After 183o he edited the See also:Figaro, and spared neither the liberal politicians nor the romanticists who triumphed under the monarchy of See also:July. In his turn he was violently attacked by Gustave See also:Planche in the Revue See also:des deux mondes for See also:November 1831.

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credit of Latouche that he did much to encourage See also:George See also:Sand at the beginning of her career. The last twenty years of his See also:life were spent in retirement at Aulnay, where he died on the 9th of See also:March 1851. Sainte-Beuve, in the Causeries du lundi, vol. 3, gives a not too sympathetic portrait of Latouche. See also George Sand in the Siecle for the 18th, 19th and loth of July 1851. LA TOUR, See also:MAURICE QUENTIN DE (1704–1788), French pastellist, was born at St Quentin on the 5th of See also:September 1704. After leaving See also:Picardy for Paris in 1727 he entered the studio of Spoede—an upright See also:man, but a poor See also:master, See also:rector of the See also:academy of St See also:Luke, who still continued, in the See also:teeth of the Royal Academy, the traditions of the old gild of the master painters of Paris. This possibly contributed to the See also:adoption by La Tour of a See also:line of work See also:foreign to that imposed by an academical training; for pastels, though occasionally used, were not a See also:principal and distinct See also:branch of work until 1720, when Rosalba Carriera brought them into See also:fashion with the Parisian world. In 1737 La Tour exhibited the first of that splendid See also:series of a hundred and fifty portraits which formed the See also:glory of the See also:Salon for the succeeding See also:thirty-seven years. In 1746 he was received into the academy; and in 1751, the following See also:year to that in which he received the See also:title of painter to the See also:king, he was promoted by that See also:body to the grade of councillor. His work had the rare merit of satisfying at once both the taste of his fashionable See also:models and the See also:judgment of his See also:brother artists. His See also:art, consummate of its See also:kind, achieved the task of flattering his sitters, whilst hiding that flattery behind the just and striking likeness which, says See also:Pierre See also:Jean See also:Mariette, he baldly ever missed.

His portraits of See also:

Rousseau, of See also:Voltaire, of See also:Louis XV., of his See also:queen, of the dauphin and dauphiness, are at once documents and masterpieces unsurpassed except by his life-See also:size portrait of Madame de See also:Pompadour, which, exhibited at the Salon of 1755, became the chief See also:ornament of the See also:cabinet of pastels in the Louvre. The museum of St Quentin also possesses a magnificent collection of works which at his See also:death were in his own hands. La Tour retired to St Quentin at the See also:age of 8o, and there he died on the18th of February 1788. The riches amassed during his See also:long life were freely bestowed by him in See also:great See also:part before his death; he founded prizes at the school of See also:fine arts in Paris and for the See also:town of See also:Amiens, and endowed St Quentin with a great number of useful and charitable institutions. He never married, but lived on terms of warm See also:affection with his brother (who survived him, and See also:left to the town the drawings now in the museum); and his relations to Mlle See also:Marie Fel (1713–1789), the celebrated See also:singer, were distinguished by a strength and See also:depth of feeling not See also:common to the loves of the 18th See also:century. See, in addition to the See also:general works on French art, C. Desmeze, M. Q. de La Tour, peintre du roi (1854) ; Champfleury, Les Peintres de See also:Laon et de St Quentin (1855) ; and " La Tour " in the Collection des artistes celebres (1886) ; E. and J. de See also:Goncourt, La Tour (1867) ; Guiffrey and M. See also:Tourneux, Correspondance inedite de M. G. de la Tour (1885); Tourneux, La Tour, biographic critique (1904); and Patoux, L'U uvre de M. Quentin de la Tour au musee de St Quentin (St Quentin, 1882). LA TOUR D'See also:AUVERGNE, TH$OPHILE MALO (1743–1800), French soldier, was born at Carhaix in See also:Brittany on the 23rd of See also:December 1743, the son of an See also:advocate named Corret.

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desire for a military career being strongly marked, he was enabled, by the not uncommon See also:device of producing a certificate of See also:nobility signed by his See also:friends, first to be nominally enlisted in the Maison du Roi, and soon afterwards to receive a See also:commission in the line, under the name of Corret de Kerbaufret. Four years after joining, in 1771, he assumed by leave of the See also:duke of See also:Bouillon the surname of La Tour d'Auvergne, being in fact descended from an illegitimate See also:half-brother of the great See also:Turenne. Many years of routine service with his See also:regiment were broken only by his participation as a volunteer in the duc de Crillon's Franco-See also:Spanish expedition to See also:Minorca in 1781. This led to an offer of promotion into the Spanish See also:army, but he refused to See also:change his See also:allegiance. In 1748 he was promoted See also:captain, and in 1791 he received the See also:cross of St Louis. In the See also:early part of the Revolution his patriotism was still more conspicuously displayed in his resolute opposition to the proposals of many of his brother See also:officers in the See also:Angoumois regiment to emigrate rather than to swear to the constitution. In 1792 his lifelong See also:interest in See also:numismatics and questions of See also:language was shown by a work which he published on the Bretons. At this See also:time he was serving under Montesquiou in the See also:Alps, and although there was only outpost fighting he distinguished himself by his courage and audacity, qualities which were displayed in more serious fighting in the See also:Pyrenees the next year. He declined well-earned See also:pro-See also:motion to See also:colonel, and, being broken in See also:health and compelled, owing to the loss of his teeth, to live on See also:milk, he left the army in 1795. On his return by See also:sea to Brittany he was captured by the See also:English and held prisoner for two years. When released, he settled at Passy and published Origines gauloises, but in 1797, on the See also:appeal of an old friend whose son had been taken as a conscript, he volunteered as the youth's substitute, and served on the See also:Rhine (1797) and in See also:Switzerland (1798–1799) as a captain. In recognition of his singular bravery and modesty See also:Carnot obtained a See also:decree from the first See also:consul naming LaTour d'Auvergne " first See also:grenadier of See also:France " (27th of See also:April 1800).

This led him to volunteer again, and he was killed in See also:

action at See also:Oberhausen, near See also:Donauworth, on the 27th of See also:June 1800. La Tour d'Auvergne's almost legendary courage had captivated the See also:imagination of the French soldier, and his memory was not suffered to See also:die. It was customary for the French troops and their See also:allies of the Rhine See also:Confederation under See also:Napoleon to march at See also:attention when passing his See also:burial-See also:place on the battlefield. His See also:heart was long carried by the grenadier See also:company of his regiment, the 46th; after being in the See also:possession of See also:Garibaldi for many years, it was finally deposited in the keeping of the See also:city of Paris in 1883. But the most striking See also:tribute to his memory is paid to-See also:day as it was by See also:order of the first consul in 1800. " His name is to be kept on the pay See also:list and See also:roll of his company. It will be called at all parades and a non-commissioned officer will reply, Mort au champ d'honneur." This See also:custom, with little variation, is still observed in the 46th regiment on all occasions when the See also:colour is taken on See also:parade.

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