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See also:VILLETTE, See also:CHARLES, See also:MARQUIS DE (1736-1793) , See also:French writer and politician, was See also:born in Faris on the 4th of See also:December 1736, the son of a financier who See also:left him a large See also:fortune and the See also:title of marquis. After taking See also:part in the Seven Years' See also:War, See also:young Villette returned in 1763 to See also:Paris, where he made many enemies by his insufferable See also:manners. But he succeeded in gaining the intimacy of See also:Voltaire, who had known his See also:mother and who wished to make a poet of him. The old philosopher even went so far as to See also:call his protege the French See also:Tibullus. In 1777, on Voltaire's See also:advice, Villette married Mademoiselle de Varicourt, but the See also:marriage was unhappy, and his wife was subsequently adopted by Voltaire's niece, Madame See also:Denis. During the Revolution Villette publicly burned his letters of See also:nobility, wrote revolutionary articles in the Chronique de Paris, and was elected See also:deputy to the See also:Convention by the See also:department of See also:Seine-et-See also:Oise. He had the courage to censure the See also:September massacres and to See also:vote for the imprisonment only, and not 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 died in Paris on the 7th of See also:July 1793.
In 1784 he published his (Euvres, which are of little value, and in 1792 his articles in the Chronique de Paris appeared in See also:book See also:form under the title Lettres choisies sur See also:les principaux evenemento de la Revolution.
End of Article: VILLETTE, CHARLES, MARQUIS DE (1736-1793)
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