LALLY-TOLLENDAL, TROPHIME GERARD, MAR QUIS DE (1751-183o), was born at Paris on March 5, 1751. He was the legitimized son of the comte de Lally (see LALLY, THOMAS ARTHUR, COMTE DE), and only discovered the secret of his birth on the day of his father's execution, when he began a long series of vain efforts to secure the rehabilitation of his parent's memory. Elected a deputy to the states-general for the noblesse of Paris, in 1789 Lally-Tollendal played some part in the early stages of the Revolution, but threw himself into opposition to the "tyranny" of Mirabeau, and condemned the epidemic of renunciation which in the session of Aug. 4, 1789, destroyed the traditional institu tions of France. Later in the year he emigrated to England. Dur ing the trial of Louis XVI. by the National Convention (1793) he offered to defend the king, but was not allowed to return to France.
He did not return till the time of the Consulate. Louis XVIII. created him a peer of France, and in 1816 he became a member of the French Academy. From that time until his death, on March II, 183o, he devoted himself to philanthropic work, espe cially prison reform.
See his Plaidoyer pour Louis XVI. (London, 1793) ; Lally-Tollendal was also in part responsible for the Memoires, attributed to Joseph Weber, concerning Marie Antoinette (1804) ; he further edited the article on his father in the Biographic Michaud; see also Arnault, Dis cours prononce aux funerailles de M. le marquis de Lally-Tollendal le .r3 mars 1830 (Paris) ; G. de Brecy, Necrologie de M. le marquis de Lally-Tollendal (Paris, undated) ; Voltaire, Oeuvres completes (1889), in which see the analytical table of contents, vol. ii.