DOMINIQUE DE, called le Jenne (1766-1855). A French historian and publicist, born in Metz. the brother of Pierre Louis de Lacretelle. He was educated for the bar at Nancy. and went to Paris in 1787, where he wrote for the Eneyelo pedir methodique and the Journal des Debars, for which he reported the sessions of the Assem bly. In 1790 he became secretary to the Duke of La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt. whom he assisted in promoting the Ring's attempted escape. Af terwards he joined the army. and was one of the most prominent of the *Jeunesse dor6e' (q.v.). On account of his Royalist sympathies he was imprisoned for about two years (1797-99). During this term he completed Matta Saint Etienne's Precis de l'histoire de la Revolution (1801-06). In IS09 he was made professor of history at the University of Paris, a post he held until 1848. He was twice censor of the press—in 1810 under Napoleon and in 1814 under Louis XVI 11.—and was made a member of the
Academy in 1811. As an historian he is not suf ficiently critical or impartial. but his works con tain much that is interesting, from the personal part he played in the events he deseribes. They cover the period of the Revolution very thor omdily, and include the following: Histoire de France pendant le sieele (1808) ; Ilistoirr dr France pendant less guerres de religion (1814-16); L'histoirc do l'assemblee constituantc (1821); L'assembler legislatire (1824) ; La con vention nationale (1824-25) ; Ilistoire de France depuis la Rest:II:ration (18•9-35) ; Histoire du Consolat et de l'Empire (1840): Dix annees d'eprencrs pendant la Revolution (1842): and Testament philosophique et title:vire (1840).