CHAMBRE INTROUVABLE, riT7i'vfi'lil'. The name given to a packed assem bly of deputies in France which sat from I fetober, 1815, to April, 1816. The epithet (meaning "ehamber whose like eannot be found") originat ed with Louis XVIII., by whom, after his resto ration. this chamber had been summoned. Louis, no doubt, used the term ironically, for he realized the injury which was sustained by his cause through the fanaticism of these deputies: but they, for the most part, accepted the name seri ously as a compliment. The former chamber, which had shown much moderation, had been dis solved under the influence of the Court party. mid the Alinistry, led by Talleyrand, had exerted itself to procure the election of a chamber. The ultra-Royalis s were for a in the a . The number of the deputies was arbitrarily raised from 259 to :392, and many of the elections, especially in the south. took place under the supervision of the partisans of reae titm or of foreign troops. At the eleetions in Nimes more than 100 persons were killed by the Royalist hands. At last, on October 7, the
King opened the chamber, on which he enjoined quiet and moderation; but when. in one of the first sittings, Boyer d'Argenson asked for the intervention of the chamber in behalf of the Protestants, who were being slaughtered in the south by the ultra-Royalist bands. the speaker was vaned to order, and the chamber from that time ceased to observe any bounds or modera tion. The fanatical legislation that followed in spired the ministers, the King. and especially the Emperor Alexander, with so much aversion and fear that the Chamber was dissolved on April 5, 1810, an event which was received with uni versal rejoicing. The electoral law of February 5, 1817, prevented the return of a similar chamber, and it was by the modified electoral law of 1820 that ultra-Royalism regained a predominating influenee in the Parliament. See WurrE TEtutoa.