Dulaure

(Jacques Antoine), French archæologist and historian, b. Clermont-Ferrand, 3 Dec. 1755. In 1788–90 he published six volumes of a description of France. He wrote many pamphlets, including one on the private lives of ecclesiastics. Elected to the Convention in 1792, he voted for the death of the King. Proscribed as a Giron dist, Sept. 1793, he fled to Switzerland. He was one of the Council of Five Hundred, 1796–98. Dulaure wrote a learned Treatise on Superstitions , but he is best known by his History of Paris , and his Short History of Different Worships , 1825, in which he deals with ancient fetishism and phallic worship. Died Paris, 9 Aug. 1835.