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See also:MALLARME, See also:FRANCOIS RENE AUGUSTE (1755-i835) , See also:French Revolutionist, the son of a lawyer, was See also:born at See also:Nancy on the 25th of See also:February 1755. He was brought up in his See also:father's profession, and was appointed procureur-See also:syndic of the See also:district of See also:Pont-a.-Mousson. During the Revolution he was elected by the See also:department of Meurthe See also:deputy to the Legislative See also:Assembly and the See also:Convention, where he attached himself to the See also:Mountain and voted for the See also:death of 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 XVI. He was elected See also:president of the Convention on the 3oth of May 1793, and by his weakness during the crisis of the following See also:day contributed much to the success of the insurrection against the See also:Girondists. He took an active See also:part in the See also:levee-en-masse, and in See also:November 1793 was given the task of establishing the revolutionary See also:government in the departments of See also:Meuse and Moselle, where he gained an unenviable notoriety by ordering the See also:execution of the See also:sentence of death decreed by the revolutionary tribunal on some See also:young girls at See also:Verdun who had offered See also:flowers to the Prussians when they entered the See also:town. After the fall of See also:Robespierre he joined the See also:group of " Thermidorians " and was sent on See also:mission to the See also:south of See also:France, where he closed the Jacobin See also:club at See also:Toulouse and set See also:free a number of imprisoned " suspects." On the 1st of See also:June 1795 he was denounced and arrested, but was soon set at See also:liberty. In 1796 he was appointed by the See also:Directory See also:commissioner for the organization of the departments of Dyle and Mont-See also:Tonnerre. Under the See also:empire he was See also:receiver of the droits reunis at Nancy, and lost his See also:money in 1814 in raising a See also:levy of See also:volunteers. Appointed sub-See also:prefect of See also:Avesnes during the See also:Hundred Days, he was imprisoned by the Prussians in revenge for the death of the maidens of Verdun, and lived in See also:- EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap, consul, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)
exile during the Restoration. He returned to France after the revolution of 183o, and died at Richemont (See also:Seine-Inferieure) on the 25th of See also:July 1835.
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