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LAVIALLE, PIEREE J. 



LAMBALLE, ANTOIITE JOSEPH JOUBERT DE, 

 an eminent French surgeon and author, born 

 at Lamhalle, in the department of C6tes-du- 

 Nord, France, in 1799, died at Passy of insani- 

 ty. May 1, 1867". He early attained celebrity in 

 his profession, and for many years was hardly 

 second in eminence to Velpeau. He succeeded 

 Magendie as a member of the Academy, and, 

 like him, devoted much attention to physiology, 

 and especially to the physiology of the nervous 

 system and the uterus. In 1849 he was made 

 a' commander in the Legion of Honor. He 

 wrote much and well, amid his constant labors 

 as a surgeon and professor. His most import- 

 ant works' are, " Theory and Practice of Sur- 

 gical Disorders of the Intestinal Canal " a 

 treatise which received a prize from the Insti- 

 tute ; " Studies on the Nervous System ; " 

 " Treatise on Plastic Surgery;" "Eesearches 

 on the Texture of the Uterus. " He became 

 suddenly insane about eighteen months before 

 his death, and never recovered his reason suffi- 

 ciently to recognize his friends. 



LAROOHEJAQUELEIN, HENRI DUVERGIER, 

 Marquis de, a French Legitimist Peer, but since 

 December, 1852, a Senator of the French Em- 

 pire, born in La Vendee, in 1804; died at Pecq, 

 near St. Germain-en-Laye, France, January 7, 

 1867. He was the son of Louis de Rochejaque- 

 lein, commander of the last Vendean army, and 

 of Marie Louise Victoire de Donissan de Roche- 

 jaquelein, the heroine of La Vendee. At the 

 Restoration in 1815 he was created a Peer of 

 France, though but eleven years of age, but had. 

 never taken his seat in the House of Peers 

 when the Revolution of July, 1830, took place. 

 He entered the military service of the Bour- 

 bons in 1821, made the campaign of Spain 

 under the Duke d'Angouleme in 1823, and was 

 captain in the Horse Grenadiers of the Royal 

 Guard in 1828. In that year he petitioned the 

 King to be allowed to serve in the Greek War 

 of Independence, but was refused. He ob- 

 tained leave, however, to join the Russian 

 army, as a simple volunteer, in the campaign of 

 the Balkan against the Turks. It was while 

 thus engaged that the Revolution of 1830 oc- 

 curred, and, unwilling to serve the house of 

 Orleans in any capacity, he resigned his peerage. 

 From that time till 1842 he devoted himself to 

 industrial pursuits, but without improving his 

 fortune by his industry. In 1842, the electors 

 of Ploermel, in the Morbihan, returned him to 

 the Chamber of Deputies. He took his seat, and 

 was the most violent member of the Legitimist 

 opposition in his attacks upon the Government. 

 3n one occasion, when an attempt was made 

 to cast a stigma upon the Legitimists for hav- 

 ing visited and paid homage to the Count de 

 Chambord, he replied with great indignation 

 to the charges of the Government, resigned his 



seat, and appealed to the judgment of the 

 electors of the Morbihan, who reflected him 

 almost by acclamation, and sent him back to 

 the Chamber. He was an ardent advocate for 

 the plebiscite, or appeal to the popular vote, in 

 regard to the choice of a ruler, and there grew 

 up a coolness between him and the Legitimist 

 party and its head, the Count de Chambord, 

 who were bitterly opposed to popular suffrage. 

 This estrangement grew wider after the proc- 

 lamation of the republic and the establish- 

 ment of the empire, which Larochejaquelein 

 accepted as the expression of the popular vote, 

 though, as far as his personal predilections were 

 concerned, he professed to be still a Legitimist. 

 In 1852 he was named by the Emperor a Sena- 

 tor, and the acceptance of this position by him 

 created a great sensation among the Legiti- 

 mists. He took a frequent though not promi- 

 nent part in the debates of the Senate, and 

 was, in particular, conspicuous for his uncom- 

 promising defence of the temporal power of 

 the Pope. On this point he was strenuous, and 

 more than once came into sharp collision with 

 Prince Napoleon on the subject. 



LAVIALLE, Right Rev. PIERRE J., Catholic 

 Bishop of Louisville, born in Mauriac, France, 

 in 1820 ; died at Nazareth Academy, near Bards- 

 town, Ky., May 11, 1867. He came to the 

 United States when about twenty-three years 

 of age, but not until he had finished his colle- 

 giate and theological courses in the universities 

 of his native city. In the year following his 

 arrival in this country he was- ordained priest, 

 and during the year immediately ensuing he 

 performed the holy functions of that order in 

 New York. At the expiration of the first year of 

 his priesthood he was made Professor of Theol- 

 ogy in St. Mary's College, Lebanon, Ky., which 

 chair he occupied with great distinction until 

 1855. In that year he was called to the presi- 

 dency of St. Mary's College. During his presi- 

 dency, in 1859, he was appointed Bishop of 

 Savannah, but declined the honor, and remain- 

 ed president of St. Mary's until his appoint- 

 ment as Bishop of Louisville, vice Bishop John 

 M. Spalding, elected Archbishop of Baltimore, 

 in 1865. He was consecrated in September of 

 that year. From that time Bishop Lavialle la- 

 bored with remarkable zeal in the fulfilment of 

 his duties as bishop. He founded several new 

 educational and benevolent institutions, and 

 indeed his labors were so extraordinary that to 

 common minds they seemed impossible of ac- 

 complishment. He was emphatically a work- 

 ing-man. Almost every part of his diocese felt 

 the improving influence of his giant energies. 

 He left a record that will cause his memory to 

 be revered by the latest posterity. His last 

 illness, which was protracted, commencing in 

 December, 1866, was the result of his over- 



