28 MEMOIR OF LATREILLE. 



hibited, in commemoration of so miraculous an 

 event. * 



Latreille incurred a similar danger in 1797, when 

 he was again proscribed as an emigre; but the 

 favour of his fellow citizens, and the influence of his 

 friends, of whom he always had the good fortune to 

 possess many, proved sufficient for his protection. 

 The names of those influential individuals, to whom 

 he owed his safety on this occasion, are General 

 Marbot, Lachaize, judge of the courts of Cassation, 

 and M. Males. 



The events of the Revolution caused him entirely 

 to abandon his views towards the church ; and he 

 devoted himself, without restriction, to the prosecu- 

 tion of his studies in Natural History. He seems 

 to have taken up his abode permanently in Paris in 

 1 798 ; and was at first received with great kindness 

 by M. Antoine Coquebert and his family. He was 

 soon after nominated a corresponding member of 

 the Institute, and on the strong recommendation of 

 MM. Lamarck, Lacepede, Cuvier, and Geoffroy St. 

 Hilaire, he was employed in the Museum of Natu- 

 ral History in the congenial task of arranging the 

 insects. This brought him some small emolument, 

 and the addition he made to it by writing numer- 

 ous small works of a popular kind, sufficed for all 

 his moderate wants. 



It is not our intention to allude particularly in 



* See Geoffroy St. Hilaire 's Discours prononce's sur la Tombe 

 de M. Latreille, Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de France, torn. ii. p. 21, 

 note. 



