REMUSAT, rd-mii-zi„ Charles Francois Marie, 'Costs Da, French polhicioa and man of letters, son of the Corntesse de Remusat (q.v.) : 13. Paris, 14 March 1797; .d. there, 6 June 1875. He was educated at the Lycee Napoleon and entered life as a journalist and lawyer. He was a member the Chamber of Deputies 1830-48 and in 1848-49 of the 'constituent and legislative assemblies, in which he voted with the friends 9f order. Prom March to October 1840 he was Minister ?of the. Interior, and in 1871-73 Minister of Foreign Affairs. He began pubis( life as a. Liberal, but ;ended leas a Con servative. During the Seiond Empire he. lived in retirements devoting himself chiefly to literary pursuits. His works include 'De is Procedure par Juges en Matiere (1820) ; de Philosophic' (1845) ; 'De la Philosophic Allettiande> (1845) ; an XVIII Sitcle) (1856)'; 'Critiques et Etudes •Litteraires: Ou, Pauli! et Present) (1857) ; (Bacon) (1857) ; 'Politique cm, Fragments pour servir I •1a De fense de la Revolution (1860) • 'De
.1a Theologie Naturelle en Fiance et Angleterre' (1864) ; (Lord Herbert of Cherbury' (1874) ; (Histoire de la' Philosophic en Aneeterre "depuis Batonjusqul Locke' (1875), and numerous contributions to the Revue des Deux lioades. . • ReMIISAT, Claire Elisabeth Jeanne Gra vier de Vergennes, Cowl-Esse rot: b. Paris, 5 Jan. 1780; d. 16 Dec 1821. She was married to Comte Auguste Laurent de Remusat, Napoleon's chamberlain, and became an intimate friend and lady-in-waiting of Josephine; thus her position made her thoroughly acquainted with the life of Napoleon's court.' Her 'Essai stir I'Educa tion des Femmes,' published 1824, received an academic couronne, and her cMemoirs,) pub , lisped in 1879-80, are particularly valuable for •the light they throw on the court of the First Empire.