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Pierre François Tissot

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In 1840 a carriage accident almost cost him his sight; he had to find an assistant, and passed the last years of his life in circumstances of increasing suffering, amid which, however, he preserved his optimism. He died in Paris.
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Deprived of his post, Tissot was left still more free to attack the government in the press. He was one of the founders of the newspaper
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He was removed from this post, however, in 1821, following the publication of a
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
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On the insurrection of Prairial 1 1795 (carried out against the
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Histoire complète de la révolution française de 1789 à 1806
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Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, duc de Richelieu
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caused him to be condemned to deportation after the
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Without laying stress on his literary works ( 142:, and he afterwards avenged his memory in the 408: 257:Mémoires historiques et militaires sur Carnot 8: 487:Anne-Pierre, marquis de Montesquiou-Fézensac 40:(20 March 1768 – 7 April 1854) was a French 91:Tissot devoted himself to the cause of the 415: 401: 393: 290:, he was also elected as a member of the 345: 123:and resumed his more modest position of 323: 310:, and are consequently of real value). 218:Précis sur les guerres de la Révolution 184:, and then of Napoléon as head of the 269:Histoire de la guerre de la Péninsule 7: 661:Historians of the French Revolution 125:Secrétaire Général des Subsistences 180:, Tissot became an admirer of the 25: 666:Members of the Académie Française 621:People of the First French Empire 200:took him as his assistant at the 176:Although still a partisan of the 362: 168:, struck his name off the list. 671:People of the French Revolution 641:19th-century French journalists 220:, which, in the context of the 686:19th-century French memoirists 636:19th-century French historians 255:, 1825) we should mention the 1: 212:Restoration and July Monarchy 152:Plot of the Rue Saint-Nicaise 247:, 1821; translation of the 702: 479:Jean-Gilles du Coëtlosquet 245:Traité de la poésie latine 646:19th-century French poets 567:Antoine de Lévis-Mirepoix 535:Gaston Audiffret-Pasquier 455:François Tallemant l'Aîné 433: 239:, and of the review, the 230:French Revolutionary Wars 105:representative-on-mission 651:French political writers 583:Valéry Giscard d'Estaing 616:Writers from Versailles 495:Antoine-Vincent Arnault 385:Encyclopædia Britannica 380:Tissot, Pierre François 265:Discours du Général Foy 519:Pierre François Tissot 194:Faubourg Saint Antoine 38:Pierre François Tissot 34: 18:Pierre-François Tissot 676:French male essayists 575:Léopold Sédar Senghor 302:(2 vols., 1833), and 144:Souvenirs de Prairial 132:Thermidorian Reaction 32: 300:Histoire de Napoléon 278:On the overthrow of 109:Revolutionary Armies 463:Simon de la Loubère 271:– both inspired by 222:Bourbon Restoration 101:National Convention 57:Tissot was born in 656:French translators 626:French biographers 424:Académie française 292:Académie française 253:Études sur Virgile 237:Le Constitutionnel 156:Napoleon Bonaparte 35: 681:French male poets 593: 592: 511:Bon-Joseph Dacier 447:Jean de Montereul 296:Bon-Joseph Dacier 251:, 3rd ed., 1823; 202:Collège de France 93:French Revolution 16:(Redirected from 693: 631:French essayists 586: 578: 570: 562: 554: 546: 538: 530: 522: 514: 506: 498: 490: 482: 474: 466: 458: 450: 442: 417: 410: 403: 394: 389: 368: 366: 365: 349: 343: 294:on the death of 206:Battle of Lützen 136:last Montagnards 97:Alexandre Goujon 44:and politician. 21: 701: 700: 696: 695: 694: 692: 691: 690: 596: 595: 594: 589: 581: 573: 565: 559:Charles Maurras 557: 549: 543:Alexandre Ribot 541: 533: 527:Félix Dupanloup 525: 517: 509: 501: 493: 485: 477: 469: 461: 453: 445: 437: 429: 421: 378:, ed. 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Pierre-François Tissot

man of letters
Versailles
Savoy
solicitor
Châtelet
fêtes
Petit Trianon
French Revolution
Alexandre Goujon
National Convention
representative-on-mission
Revolutionary Armies
Moselle
Rhine
Paris
Thermidorian Reaction
last Montagnards
guillotine
Jacobin party
Plot of the Rue Saint-Nicaise
Napoleon Bonaparte
Eclogues
Virgil
French Republic
First Consul
French Empire
Marie Louise
Faubourg Saint Antoine

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