LA)EARQUE, MANIMILTEN, Comte, 1770-1832; b. France; joined the army as a pri vate soldier in 1791, and soon rose to be rapt. of grenadiers in the famous corps com manded by Latour d'Auvergne, first grenadier of France. He was made a brig.gen. in 1801, and distinguished himself in the battles of Austerlitz and Wagram. and in the campaigns of the Tyrol and Naples (under Joachim Murat), and in Italy. Having taken the island and fortress of Capri from the English, he was made a gen. of division; and on Bonaparte's return from the island of Elba, lie gave Lamarque the command of the city of Paris, and afterwards made him commander-in-chief of the army of La Venthie. In 1815. he was proscribed by the restored Bourbons, and retired to Amsterdam, where he remained until 1818, when he returned to Paris, and contributed articles on foreign politics to the opposition journals. In 1828 he was elected to the chamber of deputies, where he became an important member of the opposition or progressive party. The republican disaffection, which had for some time been apparent in France, broke oat into open insurrection on the occasion of the funeral of gnu. Lamarqne, who died June 1, 1832. Funeral orations were delivered on the place ile In Bastile; and, at the conclu sion of the address of gen. Lafayette, a red flag was unfurled, and the dragoons who were posted about, in anticipation of trouble, were fired upon. The national guards
who were in the procession quitted it in disorder; and the insurgents raised the cry " to arms," and began to build barricades, break lamps, anti otherwise conduct them selves after the disorderly fashion of a Paris oneute. Night (June 5) brought a tempo rary cessation of the disturbances; and meanwhile the king (Louis Philippe) arrive front St. Cloud, and visited the different military posts. On the morning of the 6th th insurgents were in possession of certain quarters, but were soon surrounded by tin troops, and forced to remain behind their barricades. The king issued from the Tuil eries at the head of a brilliant staff, giving fresh confidence to the soldiers, and the bar ricades were carried; the troops losing 55 killed and 240 wounded; the national guards 18 killed and 104 wounded; and the insurgents 93 killed and 291 wounded. Paris was placed, by royal ordinance, in a state of siege; Gamier Pages and other deputies, and Armand Carrel, editor of the National, were arrested, and the polytechnic school and the school of Alfort were closed, on account of some of their students having taken part in the disturbance.