JORDAN, CAMILLE (17711821)

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JORDAN, CAMILLE (17711821) , French politician, was born in Lyons on the 11th of January 1771 of a well-to-do mercantile family. He was educated in Lyons, and from an early age was imbued with royalist principles. He actively supported by voice, pen and

musket

MUSKET (Fr. mousquet, Ger. Muskete, &c.)

his native town in its resistance to the Convention; and when Lyons fell, in October 1793, Jordan fled. From Switzerland he passed in six months to England, where he formed acquaintances with other French exiles and with prominent British statesmen, and imbibed a lasting admiration for the English Constitution. In 1796 he returned to France, and next year he was sent by Lyons as a

deputy

DEPUTY (through the Fr. from a Late Lat. use of deputare, to cut off, allot; putare having the original sense of to trim, prune)

to the Council of Five Hundred. There his eloquence won him consideration. He earnestly supported what he felt to be true freedom, especially in matters of religious

worship

WORSHIP (i.e. " worth-ship," O. Eng. weor8scipe)

, though the energetic appeal on behalf of

church

bells in his Rapport sur la liberte des cultes procured him the sobriquet of Jordan-Cloche. Proscribed at the coup d'etat of the 18th Fructidor (4th of September 1797) he escaped to Basel. Thence he went to Germany, where he met Goethe. Back again in France by 'Soo, he boldly published in 1802 his Vrai sens du vote national pour le consulat d vie, in which he exposed the ambitious schemes of Bonaparte. He was unmolested, however, and during the First Empire lived in literary retirement at Lyons with his wife and family, producing for the Lyons

academy

ACADEMY, GREEK
ACADEMY, ROYAL

occasional papers on the Influence reciproque de l'eloquence sur la Revolution et de la Revolution sur l'eloquence; Etudes sur Klopstock, &c. At the restoration in 1814 he again emerged into public life. By Louis XVIII. he was ennobled and named a councillor of state; and from 1816 he sat in the chamber of deputies as representative of Ain. At first he sup-ported the ministry, but when they began to show signs of re-action he separated from them, and gradually came to be at the head of the constitutional opposition. His speeches in the chamber were always eloquent and powerfuL Though warned by failing health to resign, Camille Jordan remained at his post till his death at Paris, on the 19th of May 1821.
To his pen we owe Lettre a M. Lamourette (1791); Histoire de la conversion dune dame Parisienne (1792) ; La Loi et la religion vengees (1792); Adresse a ses commettants sur la revolution du 4 Septembre 1797 (1797) ; Sur les troubles de Lyon (1818) ; La Session de 1817 (1818). His Discours were collected in 1818. The " Fragments . choisis," and translations from the German, were published in L'Abeille francaise. Besides the various histories of the time, see further details vol. x. of the Revue encyclopedique; a

paper

PAPER
PAPER (Fr. papier, from Lat. papyrus)

on Jordan and Madame de Stael, by C. A. Sainte-Beuve, in the Revue des deux mondes for

March

1868 and R. Boubee, " Camille Jordan a

Weimar

WEIMAR

," in the Correspondant (1901), ecv. 718738 and 948-970.

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