Nicolas Chamfort

(1741-1794)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Chamfort, Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas, 1740?-1794 LBT ID: NiChamf1794 VIAF ID: 31994287 LOC ID: n50051798	B/BAP: 1741-04-06 DIED: 1794-04-13
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French journalist, wit, and friend of Mirabeau; he was alternately a courtier and a jacobin, and died a suicide.
REFERENCES TO Nicolas Chamfort: Thomas Charles Morgan to Sydney Owen, November 1811 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Found 1: ¶ 2 Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter XXXVII Chapter XVII Found 1: ¶ 2 Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 6: 1817-19 Found 1: ¶ 10