- Chénier, Marie Joseph by Abraham Johnson
1764–1811, French poet and dramatist, b. Constantinople; brother of André Chénier. A member of the Convention, the Council of Five Hundred, and the Tribunate during the French Revolution, he wrote a number of political and historical plays, notably Charles IX. (1789). Besides the comprehensive Tableau historique de l'état et des progrès de la littérature française depuis 1789. (1816), he is ...
- Ellsworth, Oliver by Sydney Reyes
... born April 29, 1745, Windsor, Conn.—died Nov. 26, 1807, Windsor) U.S. Politician, diplomat, and jurist. He served in the Continental Congress (1777–83) and coauthored the Connecticut Compromise (1787), which resolved the issue of representation in Congress. In 1789 he became one of Connecticut's first U.S. Senators. He was the chief author of the ...
- Desmoulins, Camille by Xavier Long
1760–94, French revolutionary and journalist. His oratory of July 12, 1789, contributed to the storming of the Bastille two days later. His pamphlets and journals, such as Révolutions de France et de Brabant. (1789), were received with immense enthusiasm. Elected to the Convention (1792), he attacked the Girondists in the Histoire des Brissotins; but late in 1793, after the execution of ...
- Sorbonist by Webster's
... n.) A doctor of the Sorbonne or theological college, in the University of Paris, founded by Robert de Sorbon, a. d. 1252. It was suppressed in the Revolution of 1789.
- Bastille Day by Bryce Ramsey
July 14; French national holiday celebrating the fall of the Bastille prison (1789). [Fr. Hist.: NCE, 245] See: IndependenceBastille Day. Celebration of day Paris mob stormed prison; first outbreak of French Revolution (1789). [Fr. Hist.: EB, I: 866] See: Rebellion