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See also:TISSOT, See also:PIERRE See also:FRANCOIS (1768–1854) , See also:French See also:man of letters, was See also:born at See also:Versailles on the loth of See also:March 1768. His See also:father, a native of See also:Savoy, was a perfumer appointed by royal See also:warrant to the See also:court. At the See also:age of eighteen he entered the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of a procureur of the See also:Chatelet, in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to learn the practice of the See also:law; but he cultivated the See also:Muses rather than the study of See also:procedure, and, being a handsome youth, was occasionally invited to the fetes of the Trianon. He devoted himself ardently to the cause of the Revolution, in spite of the fact that it had ruined his See also:family. While with the procureur he had made the acquaintance of See also:Alexandre See also:Goujon, and they soon became inseparable; he married Goujon's See also:sister, Sophie (March 5, 1793), and when his See also:brother-in-law was elected See also:deputy to the See also:Convention and sent on a See also:mission to the armies of the Moselle and See also:Rhine, Tissot went with him as his secretary; he then returned to See also:Paris and resumed his more modest position of secretaire See also:general See also:des subsistances. On the 1st of Prairial he tried in vain to See also:save his brother-in-law, who had been involved in the proscription of the " last Mon tagnards "; all he could do was to give Goujon the See also:knife with which he killed himself in order to 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 the See also:guillotine, and he afterwards avenged his memory in the Souvenirs de Prairial. He also took under his care Goujon's widow and See also:children. His connexion with the Jacobin party caused him to be condemned to See also:deportation after the See also:attempt of the 3rd Nivose in the See also:year IX., but See also:Bonaparte, having been persuaded to read his See also:translation of the See also:Bucolics, struck ,his name off the See also:list. Though still a friend of the See also:Republic, Tissot was henceforth an admirer of the First See also:Consul; he celebrated in See also:verse several of the See also:emperor's victories, and the arrival in See also:France of See also:Marie-See also:Louise (181o). So far he had lived on the income derived from a factory of See also:horn lanterns in the See also:Faubourg St See also:Antoine; and, being at last in fairly comfortable circumstances he now devoted himself to literature. The See also:abbe See also:Delille took him as his assistant at the See also:College de France; and Tissot succeeded him as See also:head of it (1813); the emperor signed the See also:appointment as a See also:reward for a poem composed by Tissot on his victory at See also:Lutzen. He was removed from this See also:post, however, in 1821, in consequence of the publication of a Precis sur See also:les guerres de la revolution, in which rather colourless See also:work he had dared to say that the Convention had saved France and vanquished the See also:Coalition. Deprived of his post, Tissot was See also:left still more See also:free to attack the See also:government in the See also:press. He was one of the founders of the newspaper Le Constitutionnel, and of the See also:review, the Minerve. Without laying stress on his See also:literary See also:works (Traite de la poesie latine, 1821; translation of the Bucolics, 3rd ed., 1823; Etudes sur Virgile, 1825) we should mention the Memoires historiques et militaires sur See also:Carnot, which he based on the papers left by the " Organizer of Victory " (1824), the Discours du General See also:Foy (1826) and a Histoire de la guerre de
F.-See also:TISZA
la Peninsule also inspired by General Foy (1827). On the overthrow of See also:Charles X., Tissot made a successful effort to regain his position at the College de France; he was also elected as a member of the French See also:Academy on the See also:death of See also:Dacier (1833). It was then that he published his See also:chief works: Histoire de See also:Napoleon (2 vols., 1833), and Histoire See also:complete de la revolution francaise de 1789 d 18o6 (6 vols., 1833-1836), full of inconsistencies and omissions, but containing a number of the author's reminiscences; in some places they become practically See also:memoirs, and are consequently of real value. In 184o a See also:carriage See also:accident almost cost him his sight; he had to find an assistant, and passed the last years of his See also:life in circumstances of increasing suffering, amid which, however, he preserved his cheerfulness and goodness of See also:heart. He died at Paris on the 7th of See also:April 18 J4.
See an excellent See also:essay on Tissot by P. Fromageot in the Revue de Versailles et de See also:Seine-et-See also:Oise, in 1901.
End of Article: TISSOT, PIERRE FRANCOIS (1768–1854)
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