28 MEMOIR OP LATREILLE. 
liibited, 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 ho 
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 Geoffioy St. 
Hilaire, he was employed in the Museum of Natu- 
ral History in the congenial task of arranging the 
insects. This brought him somo 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 Geoffrey St. Hilaire’s Discours prononcts sur la Tombe 
de M. Latreille, Aun. de la Soc. Ent.de France, tom. ii. p. 21, 
note. 
