Larevelliere-Lepaux

(Louis Marie DE ), French politician, b. Montaigu 25 Aug. 1753. Attached from youth to the ideas of Rou eau, he was elected with Volney to represent Angers in the national a embly. He was a moderate Republican, defended the proscribed Girondins, was doomed himself but escaped by concealment, and distinguished himself by seeking to replace Catholicism with theophilanthropy or natural religion. He wrote Reflections on Worship and the National Fêtes . He became President of the Directory, and after the 18 Brumaire retired, refusing to swear fealty to the empire though offered a pension by Napoleon. Died Paris, 27 March, 1824.