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portance of honoring De la Place, and they accordingly raised 

 him to public dignity. After the Restoration, the king confirm- 

 ed the decision by naming him to the peerage, the duties of 

 which never diverted him from those learned researches, in 

 which death alone could arrest his progress. His last years 

 produced sparks of that fruitful genius which old age had no 

 power to chill. He honored all those who cultivated science, 

 and granted to such his encouragement and counsel. He em- 

 ployed the credit which his vast fame and his public employment 

 gave him, only in assisting men who showed a taste for study ; 

 and all his life was employed in favoring learned men and in 

 extending the bounds of science. We propose to give an 

 extensive notice of the labors and discoveries of this celebrated 

 man, so worthy of holding a distinguished place in the me- 

 mory of our descendants. — Francceur, Idem. 



1 1 . La Rochefoucauld — Liancourt. — (Francis Alexandre 

 — Frederic, Duke of,) peer of France, member of the in- 

 stitute, died at Paris, March 27th, 1827, at the age of 81. 



TJie sacred cause of humanity is daily losing some of its 

 supporters and defenders. The entire life of this venerable 

 philanthropist has been a succession of good actions, and of 

 services rendered to his country. He introduced vaccination 

 into France and ceased not during more than twenty years, to 

 propagate it with indefatigable zeal. He founded the 

 schools of arts and trades, of Compiegne, of Chalons and 

 of Augers. He presided at the creation of the conservato- 

 ry of the arts and trades of Paris. Hospitals, and prisons 

 whose interior discipline he contributed greatly to ame- 

 liorate, and the greater number of the establishments devo- 

 ted to indigence, old age, and misfortune, have by turns 

 been objects of his active beneficence. He was also the 

 principal founder of the school of mutual instruction in our 

 country ; and the two societies for the amelioration of ele- 

 mentary instruction, and for the application of christian mo- 

 rals to the relations of social life, were established under 

 his auspicies, and in a great measure by his exertions. He 

 has been a powerful agent in the promotion of industry in 

 the legislative chambers, in the society for the encourage- 

 ment of national industry, and especially in the commune of 

 Liancourt, where his lessons and example have given a salu- 

 tary impulse to the whole country. The ferocious enemies 

 of new institutions and public liberty have not spared this 



