Editing Camille Jordan (politician)

{{Short description|French politician (1771–1821)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2014}}

[[File:Camille Jordan (politicien).png|thumb|Camille Jordan (politician)]]
'''Camille Jordan''' (11 January 1771 in [[Lyon]]<ref>{{cite book |title=Almanach historique et politique de la ville de Lyon et du département du Rhône: pour l'an ... 1835 |date=1835 |publisher=Ballanche |page=XLV |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KexAAAAAcAAJ&dq=Camille+Jordan+%2211+janvier+1771%22&pg=PR45 |access-date=5 December 2024 |language=fr}}</ref> – 19 May 1821) was a French politician born in Lyon of a well-to-do mercantile family.

Jordan was educated in Lyon, and from an early age was imbued with royalist principles. He actively supported by voice, pen, and musket his native town in its resistance to the Convention, and when Lyon 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.<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Jordan, Camille|volume=15|page=508}}</ref>

In 1796 he returned to France, and next year he was sent by Lyon as a deputy to the [[Council of the Five Hundred]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Camille Jordan |url=https://www2.assemblee-nationale.fr/sycomore/fiche/%28num_dept%29/10366 |website=www2.assemblee-nationale.fr |access-date=5 December 2024}}</ref> There, his eloquence won him consideration. He earnestly supported what he felt to be true freedom, especially in matters of religious worship, though the energetic appeal on behalf of church bells in his ''Rapport sur la liberté des cultes'' procured him the sobriquet of "Jordan-Cloche". Proscribed at the ''coup d'état'' of the 18th Fructidor (4 September 1797), he escaped to [[Basel]]. Thence he went to Germany, where he met [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe|Goethe]].<ref name="EB1911"/>

Back again in France by 1800,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Stenger |first1=Gilbert |title=La société française pendant le consulat: Aristocrates et républicains |date=1904 |publisher=Perrin et cie |page=427 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-AMoAQAAIAAJ&dq=Camille+Jordan+%221800%22+Vrai+sens+du+vote+national+pour+le+consulat+%C3%A0+vie&pg=PA427 |access-date=5 December 2024 |language=fr}}</ref> he boldly published in 1802 his ''Vrai sens du vote national pour le consulat à vie'',<ref>{{cite book |title=Biographie universelle ou Dictionnaire de tous les hommes qui se sont fait remarquer par leurs écrits, leurs actions ... depuis le commencement du monde jusqu'à ce jour; d'après la Biogr. univ. de Michaud, de Weiss ... |date=1845 |publisher=Ode |page=196 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=84lTAAAAcAAJ&dq=Camille+Jordan+%221802%22+Vrai+sens+du+vote+national+pour+le+consulat+%C3%A0+vie&pg=RA1-PA196 |access-date=5 December 2024 |language=fr}}</ref> in which he exposed the ambitious schemes of [[Napoleon Bonaparte|Bonaparte]]. He was unmolested, however, and during the First Empire lived in literary retirement at Lyon with his wife and family, producing for the Lyon academy occasional papers on the ''Influence réciproque de l'éloquence sur la Révolution et de la Révolution sur l'éloquence''; ''Etudes sur Klopstock'', etc.<ref name="EB1911"/>

At the [[Bourbon Restoration in France|restoration]] in 1814, he again emerged into public life. By [[Louis XVIII of France|Louis XVIII]] he was ennobled and named a councillor of state; and from 1816 he sat in the chamber of deputies as representative of [[Am, France|Am]]. At first, he supported the ministry, but when they began to show signs of reaction, 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 19 May 1821.<ref name="EB1911"/>

To his pen we owe {{lang|fr|Lettre à M. Laniourette}} (1791); {{lang|fr|Histoire de la conversion d'une dame parisienne}} (1792); {{lang|fr|La Loi et la religion vengées}} (1792); {{lang|fr|Adresse à ses commettants sur la Révolution du 4 Septembre 1797}} (I797); {{lang|fr|Sur les troubles de Lyon}} (1818); {{lang|fr|La Session de 1817}} (1818). His {{lang|fr|Discours}} were collected in 1818. The "{{lang|fr|Fragments choisis}}," and translations from the German, were published in {{lang|fr|L'Abeille française}}. Besides the histories of the time, see further details vol. x. of the {{lang|fr|Revue encyclopédique}}; a paper on Jordan and Madame de Staël, by [[Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve]], in the ''[[Revue des deux mondes]]'' for March 1868 and R Boubbe, "''Camille Jordan à Weimar''," in the ''Correspondance'' (1901), ccv. 718–738 and 948–970.<ref name="EB1911"/>

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