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has done it with genius and judgment. His next pro¬ 
duction was a comedy in verfe, in two adls, called LeCon- 
vakfeent de Qualite', on PAriflocrate, in which, as. may be 
expected from the title, all the faults of the old French 
government, and all the prejudices and foibles refill ting 
from the'’pride of birth, are virulently attacked. At the 
fame time he produced another in five adds, called L' In¬ 
trigue cpiftolairc , which was much applauded, and had 
eonfiderable fuccefs. 
But the dramatic mufe, however aftiduopfly or fuccefT- 
fully cultivated, was not able, in the tumult of revolu¬ 
tion, to fecure to her votary either fame or profit. Fabre 
had other qualities which promifed to facilitate his pro- 
grefs in the paths of'wealth and political renown. The 
fpirit of intrigue which he difplayed on the theatre, was 
his own charadteriftic in life. He was fupple, infinuating, 
cunning, and laborious; he echoed the fentiments, and 
flattered the paflr'ons, of his fuperiors, careful in avoid¬ 
ing offence, and careful to obtain the effeecn of all. With 
thefe requifites he commenced flatterer of the duke of 
Orleans, and attached hiriifelf perfonally to Danton. Dan- 
ton introduced him to madame Roland’s cabinet parties, 
and recommended him to conduit, jointly with Camille 
Defmoulins and Robert, a ported paper called Compte 
rendu au Pcupie Souverain. This publication was com¬ 
menced and carried on for a fliort time, but the parties 
having received the fum propofed, it was difeontinued. 
Danton then made him one of his fecretaries; in which 
fituation he is fuppofed to have acquired great riches 
previous to and during the maffacres of the prifoners. 
He was alfo one of the council-general of the commune, 
and among the firft who divided with Danton, and joined 
Robefpierre’s party againft Roland. He now lived in the 
Rue du Theatre Franpais in a (file of elegance and lux¬ 
ury, and acknowledged himfelf to be worth twelve thou- 
fand livres (5 25I.) a-year. As he poffelfed no vifible 
means of attaining fuch a fortune, it was juftly attri¬ 
buted to his having (hared in the plunder of the murder¬ 
ed captives, or, perhaps, of the jewel-office. 
Having diftinguifhed liimfelf at the Jacobin club as a 
republican, and by his exertions againft la Fayette, he 
was, by Danton’s influence, elected member of the con¬ 
vention for Paris. During ten months he was not con- 
fpicuous. He voted with the reft of his party on the 
trial of the king, and recommended death in four-and- 
twenty-hours. He was marked as a conftant opponent of 
Roland ; but does not appear to have allifted’ actively in 
the expulfion of the Brilfotines. He was a member of 
the committee of public fafety, and of the committee of 
public inftruCtion. At the beginning of the war with 
England, he moved that an addrefs to the Britifh nation, 
againft their government, fhould be publiihed ; and that 
the perfonsand property of Engliftimen refiding in France, 
and fubmitting to the laws, fhould be defended and pro- 
tedted : but, in the fame year, he propofed the meafure 
of arrefting all the Englifh, and other fubjedts of the king 
of England, then in the republic. Ambitious to be ef- 
teemed a good economift and financier, he prefented to 
the convention a pian for fupplying the army with necef- 
faries, and preventing frauds : it feems well adapted to a 
revolutionary government, but totally inapplicable to a 
regular fyftem. He alfo made a report on the difcredit 
ofaflignats; but it furpaffed his talents to prevent that 
calamity. 
He was an adtive member of the club of Cordeliers, 
and Ihewed himfelf worthy of their efteem by joining 
earnertly in all their labours for the extirpation of reli¬ 
gion. One principal effort towards this was the forma¬ 
tion of a new calendar, of which d’Eglantine was the au¬ 
thor, and which took place from the 22d of September, 
1793. The obvious aim of this invention was, by a new 
divilionof the year, by the abolition of weeks, by the al¬ 
teration of months, and by giving new names to the days; 
to obliterate every trace of Sundays, faints’ days, holi- 
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days, and Chriftian feftivals. See the article Calendar* 
vol. iii. p. 615. 
It has been aflerted that Fabre materially affifted Ro. 
befpierre in the compofition of his fpeeches and writings ; 
the fame is faid of Camille Defmoulins; but thefe ac¬ 
counts fhould be received with caution. They are im¬ 
probable, becaufe the ftile-of Defmoulins was extremely 
carelefs ; and d’Eglantiqe required a judicious friend to 
reform his own diction: the works of Robefpierre are 
fuperior in wit, fentiment, and language, to the writings 
of his fuppofed inffructors. The ffile in which Fabre 
lived, and the open .profligacy with which lie fold his 
patronage, may, perhaps, have given rife to this report; 
but it was a part of Robefpierre’s prudence not to pre¬ 
vent peculation in his inferior agentsj that he might, at 
qfleafure, facrifice them to his revenge or convenience; 
Fabre vvas, however, expofed to denunciations; Boileau 
accufcd him in the convention of having propofed the 
reftoration of royalty ; but the charge was evaded by the 
influence of his party. His ffile of living pointed him 
out to the malice of his brother cordelier Hebert, who 
attacked him iir his journal, called Le Pcre Duc/ie/ne, as an 
enriched patriot. This offence Brought Hebert to the 
fcaffold ; but Fabre did not long triumph over his fallen 
adverfary : foon after the execution of Hebert, he was 
himfelf arrefted, together with Chabot and feveral others, 
and confined, firft in the Luxemburg, afterwards in the 
Conciergerie. In prifon he behaved with the mod effe¬ 
minate weaknefs; his health was impaired, and he gave 
way to unmanly lamentations. Pride prevented his making 
the lofs of life the apparent topic of his regret; he there¬ 
fore affedted concern about a comedy in five acts, which 
had been feized and fent to the committee of public fafe¬ 
ty, and of which he was apprehenlive that Billaud de 
Varennes would affiime the credit. At his trial he exhi¬ 
bited the fame defpondency ; not even the heroifm of 
Danton could animate him. In the cart he evinced the 
fame feeblenefs of charadter, and died under the guillo¬ 
tine, on the 5th of April 1794. 
E'GLE, or JEgle, f. in botany, a new genus in Dr. 
Roxburgh’s Defcription of the Plants of the Coaft of 
Coromandel, ii. 2. 143. Correa in API. Soc. Lin. v. 222. 
The generic charadters are—Trunk pretty eredt ; bark 
afh-coloured; branches thin and irregular; thornsaxil¬ 
lary, in pairs, fingle, very (harp and ftrong; but fome- 
times wanting. Leaves three’d; leaflets oblong, or 
broad-lanced, attenuated to a blunt point, crenulated, 
differing .much in ftze, but the exterior one always the 
largeft. Panicles as in Feronia, but the flowers are 
much larger, and white, and fuppofed to be all herma¬ 
phrodite. Calyx and corolla, as in Feronia, (monophyl- 
lous, campanulate, quinque-partite, Koenig.) Filaments 
about forty, (thirty-two to thirty-fix, Koenig.) Antheraj 
linear, eredt, (acute, Koenig.) Piftillum, as in Feronia. 
Berry confiderably larger than in Feronia; fmoother; 
fhell much harder, from ten to fifteen celled, (twelve 
to (ixteen, Koenig,) the cells contain, befides the feeds, a 
large quantity of an exceedingly tenacious tranfparent 
gluten, which, on drying, becomes very hard, but conti¬ 
nues tranfparent; when frefli, it may be drawn out into 
threads of one or two yards in length, and fo fine as to 
be fcarcely perceptible to the naked eye. Seeds from fix 
to ten in each cell, oblong, a little comprelfed, woolly, 
of a light-grey colour. 
The only fpecies is egle marmelos, the'maredoo of the 
Telingas. This appears to be the craieva marmelos of Lin- 
nteus-; and it Is obfervable, that when this eminent bo- 
taniff made it a crate va, he ex prefled much doubt of the 
fadt, and predicted that it might, when better known, 
prove to be a diffindt genus. It grows to a large tree; 
is a native of the mountainous parts of tlie coalt of Co¬ 
romandel, but met with fometimes in the low lands; 
flowers during the hot feafon. It is an aromatic tree ; 
and, from the rind of the fruit, the Dutch on the ifland 
