See also:LATUDE, See also:JEAN See also:HENRI , often called DANRY or MASERS DE LATUDE (1725–1805), prisoner of the See also:Bastille, was See also:born at Montagnac in See also:Gascony on the 23rd of See also:March 1725. He received a military See also:education and went to See also:Paris in 1748 to study See also:mathematics. He led a dissipated See also:life and endeavoured to See also:curry favour with the marquise de See also:Pompadour by secretly sending her a See also:box of See also:poison and then informing her of the supposed See also:plot against her life. The ruse was discovered, and Mme de Pompadour, not appreciating the See also:humour of the situation, had Latude put in the Bastille on the 1st of May 1749. He was later transferred to See also:Vincennes, whence he escaped in 1750. Retaken and reimprisoned in the Bastille, he made a second brief 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 in 1756. He was transferred to Vincennes in 1764, and the next See also:year made a third escape and was a third 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 recaptured. He was put in a madhouse by See also:Malesherbes in 1775, and discharged in 1777 on See also:condition that he should retire to his native See also:town. He remained in Paris and was again imprisoned. A certain Mme See also:Legros became interested in him through See also:chance See also:reading of one of his See also:memoirs, and, by a vigorous agitation in his behalf, secured his definite See also:release in 1784. He exploited his See also:long captivity with considerable ability, posing as a brave officer, a son of the See also:marquis de la Tude, and a victim of Pompadour's intrigues. He was extolled and pensioned during the Revolution, and in 1793 the See also:convention compelled the heirs of Mme de Pompadour to pay him 6o,000 francs See also:damages. He died in obscurity at Paris on the 1st of See also:January 1805.
The See also:principal See also:work of Latude is the See also:account of his imprisonment, written in collaboration with an See also:advocate named Thiery, and en-titled Le Despotisme devoile, ou Memoires de Henri Masers de la Tude, detenu See also:pendant trente-cinq ans clans See also:les diverses prisons d'etat (Amster-See also:dam, 1787, ed. Paris, 1889). An Eng. trans. of a portion was published in 1787. The work is full of lies and misrepresentations, but had See also:great See also:vogue at the time of the See also:French Revolution. Latude also wrote essays on all sorts of subjects.
See J. F. Barriere, Memoires de See also:Linguet et de Latude (1884); G. See also:Bertin, See also:Notice in edition of the Memoires (1889); F. Funck-See also:Brentano, " Latude," in the Revue See also:des deux mondes (1st See also:October 1889).
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