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MONTLOSIER, See also:FRANCOIS DOMINIQUE DE REYNAUD, See also:COMTE DE (1755-1838) , See also:French publicist, was See also:born at Clermont-See also:Ferrand (See also:Puy-de-See also:Dome) on the 16th of See also:April 1755, the youngest of a large See also:family belonging to the poorer See also:nobility. He was returned in 1791 to the Constituent See also:Assembly, where he sat on the Royalist See also:side, and he emigrated on its See also:dissolution in See also:September 1791. He was received into the emigrant See also:army at See also:Coblenz after some protest against the Liberal leanings he had shown in the Assembly. After the cannonade of Valmy, he withdrew to See also:Hamburg, and thence to See also:London, where he avoided See also:English society, moving exclusively among the French exiles. In his Courrier de Londres, published in London, he advocated moderation and the See also:abandonment by the exiles of any See also:idea of revenge. He was recalled to See also:Paris in 18o1, with permission to publish his See also:paper in London. The Courrier was soon suppressed, nevertheless, its editor being compensated by a comfortable See also:sinecure in the See also:ministry of See also:foreign affairs. Next See also:year he sold his See also:pen to the See also:government to edit the violent See also:anti-English Bulletin de Paris. At See also:Napoleon's See also:request he undertook an See also:account of the See also:ancient See also:monarchy of See also:France, which should serve as a See also:justification for the See also:empire. After four years' labour Montlosier submitted his See also:work to a specially appointed See also:committee, by which it was rejected because of the stress laid on the feudal limitations of the royal authority. The work De la monarchie frangaise . . . ou recherches sur See also:les anciennes institutions frangaises .

. . et sur les causes qui ont amene la revolution . . . appeared in 1814 in three volumes, a See also:

fourth and supplementary See also:volume in the next year containing a See also:preface hostile to Napoleon. His views were no more acceptable to See also:Louis XVIII. than they had been to the See also:emperor, and he devoted himself to See also:agriculture until he was roused by the clerical and reactionary policy of See also:Charles X. His anti-clerical Memoire d consulter sur un systeme religieux, politique . . . (1826) rapidly passed through eight See also:editions. He had no See also:part in the revolution of 183o, but supported Louis Philippe's government and entered the See also:House of Peers in 1832. He died on the 9th of See also:December 1838 at See also:Blois. Ecclesiastical See also:burial was denied him because he had refused to abjure his anti-clerical writings. Among his See also:works should be mentioned: Memoires sur la revolution francaise, le consulat, l'empire, la restoration, et les principaux evenements qui l'ont suivie (2 vols., 1829).

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