Discourse of Cotton des Houssayes. It is impossible to give to his version a more graceful or original turn, or to render with more delicacy the grand and in-
on December 16, 1792.
Although very young, he showed so much intelligence in teaching that he attracted the notice of the government. He was appointed successively principal of Angers' college, inspector of Caen university and rector of the Lyon and Douai academies. Everywhere he proved himself an experienced administrator, everywhere he knew how to make himself loved and obeyed by his loyalty, his independence and his justice.
He early abandoned his university career, in order to give himself up entirely to study. It would be impossible in so short a notice to enumerate the forty-nine productions of Mr. G.-Duplessis;
