nationality challenged 227, 235;
nominated to Academy of Sciences of Göttingen (1812) 202;
in Oxford (1780) 35–7;
political addresses:
collected speeches 241;
on danger of tyranny in France (1800) 154;
‘For the planting of a Tree of Liberty’ (1797) 148;
on freedom in ancient and modern times (1819) 230
political career:
appointed to Tribunate (1799) 153;
attends meeting of Convention 142;
and Bernadotte 203–4, 205, 206;
campaigning against slavery 230, 231, 254;
campaigns for dispossessed 239–40;
curtailing writing 229–30;
defeated in La Sarthe (1822) 232–3;
defence of Barras’ coup d’état (1797) 148;
denounces special courts 159;
elected chairman of administrative committee 146;
elected as deputy for La Sarthe (1819) 227;
elected deputy for seat near Paris (1824) 235;
eloquence 58, 229;
established in French political circles 147;
expelled from Tribunate (1802) 162;
fails to be elected as deputy (1818) 226;
French attitudes to 162;
gives support to Napoleon 213–15;
and help of Charles-Louis-François Goyet 226–7;
implicated in Berton plot against Bourbons (1822) 232;
increasing interest in proleteriat 240;
Independent group 224;
justifies and support for Napoleon 215;
and Louis-Philippe’s government 247–8;
made elector for Luzarches (1798) 149;
made member of Napoleon’s Council of State 214;
as member of French Assembly 64;
as member of Tribunate 155, 159, 162;
negotiates with Allies (1815) 215;
opposition to compensation for émigrés 239;
opposition to Napoleon 154, 184, 205–6, 213, 241;
portrait of style in parliament 229;
production of pamphlets 230–1;
re-elected in Paris (1827) 242;
regarded as hero of liberalism 232;
and restoration of Bourbons 207;
stands unsuccessfully as deputy for Geneva (1799) 151;
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