DUPORT, ADRIEN (1759-1798)

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DUPORT, ADRIEN (1759-1798) ,

French

politician, was born in Paris. He became an influential

advocate

in the parlement, becoming prominent in opposition to the ministers

Calonne

CALONNE
CALONNE, CHARLES
ALEXANDRE
- ALEXANDRE, NOEL (NATALIS ALEXANDER) (1639-1724)
DE (1734-1802)

and Lomenie de Brienne. Elected in 1789 to the states-general by the noblesse of Paris, he soon revealed a remarkable eloquence. A learned jurist, he contributed during the Constituent Assembly to the organization of the judiciary of France. His report of the 29th of

March

MARCH
MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in
French
appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the
regular
- REGULAR
tread of a soldier: cf.
MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
MARCH, EARLS OF
MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

1790 is especially notable. In it he advocated trial by jury; but he was unable to obtain the jury

system

SYSTEM

in civil cases. Duport had formed with Barnave and

Alexandre

ALEXANDRE, NOEL (NATALIS ALEXANDER) (1639-1724)

de Lameth a group known as the " triumvirate," which was popular at first. But after the flight of the king to Varennes, Duport sought to defend him; as member of the commission charged to question the king, he tried to excuse him, and on the 14th of July 1791 he opposed the formal accusation. He was thus led to

separate

SEPARATE

himself from the Jacobins and to join the Feuillant party. After the Constituent Assembly he became president of the criminal tribunal of Paris, but was arrested during the insurrection of the loth of August 1792. He escaped, thanks probably to the complicity of Danton, returned to France after the 9th of Thermidor of the year II., left it in

exile

EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap,
consul
- CONSUL
- CONSUL (in Gr. generally ihraros,ashortened form of errpavgybs 8hraeos, i.e. praetor maximus)
, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)

again after the republican coup d'etat of the 18th of Fructidor of the year V., and died at Appenzell in Switzerland in 1798.
See F. A. Aulard, Les Orateurs de la Constituante (2nd ed., Paris, 1905, 8vo).

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