CAZALES, JACQUES ANTOINE MARIE DE 18o5 ), French orator and politician, was born at Grenade in Languedoc, of a family of the lower nobility. Before 1789 he was a cavalry officer, but in that year was returned as deputy to the states general. In the Constituent Assembly he belonged to the section of moderate royalists who sought to set up a con stitution on the English model, and his speeches in favour of retaining the right of war and peace in the king's hands and on the organization of the judiciary gained the applause even of his opponents. After the insurrection of Aug. 1792, which led to the downfall of royalty, Cazales emigrated. He fought in the army of the emigres against revolutionary France, lived in Switzerland and in England, and did not return to France until 1803. He died on Nov. 24, 1805. His son, Edmond de Cazales, wrote philosophical and religious studies.
See Discours de Cazales, ed. by Chare (1821) , with an introduction; F. A. Aulard, Les Orateurs de la Constituante (2nd ed., 1905).