Dupont, Jacques

CHARLES, (styled de l'Eure,) a leader of the French liberal party, B. at Neubourg, 1767. In 1813 he became a member of the legislative body, and acted as vice-president when this a embly was convoked by Louis XVIII. on the fall of Napoleon. During the Hundred Days he was elected to represent the department of Eure, and, after the battle of Waterloo, became vice-president of the Chamber of Representatives. After the revolution of 1830, he was appointed Minister of Justice, but at the end of six months sent in his resignation, and took his place in the ranks of the opposition. After the revolution of 1848, during the se ion of the 24th February, D. took the president's chair, and so far silenced the tumult of the populace, as to render it po ible to appoint a provisional government of which he was proclaimed president. His political friends styled him the most virtuous among the virtuous, the Aristides of French liberalism. D. 1855. Dupont', in Indiana, a post-village of Jefferson co., abt. 14 m. N.W. of Madison. Dupont, in Ohio , a post-office of Putnam co. Dupont, in Wisconsin, a township of Waupаса со. Düp'pel, Düp'peln, or Dyb'böl. ( Hist . ) This village of Schleswig, separated from the island of Alsen by a narrow sound, has been the scene of several conflicts in the struggles for the settlement of the SchleswigHolstein question. (See DENMARK.) Here the Danes defeated the Pru ians, May 28, 1848, and compelled them to retreat to Graven stein. A second engagement took place June 5, 1848, when the Danes were driven from their position, which, however, they regained June 6. It was carried by an a ault of the Saxons and Bavarians, April 13, 1849. - The bulk of the Danish army having taken up its position at Düppel, Feb. 6, 1864, the village was besieged by the Pru ians, who commenced a bombardment, March 15, which terminated in the defeat of the Danes, April 18.