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</noinclude><section begin="s1"/>In Greek art Leto usually appears carrying her children in her arms,

pursued by the dragon sent by the jealous Hera, which is slain by

the infant Apollo; in vase paintings especially she is often represented

with Apollo and Artemis. The statue of Leto in the Letoon

at Argos was the work of Praxiteles.

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<section begin="s2"/>'''LATOUCHE; HYACINTHE JOSEPH ALEXANDRE THEABAUD DE''' [known as HENRII (1785-1851), French poet and

novelist, was born at La Chatre (Indre) on the 2nd of February

1785. Among his works may be distinguished his comedies:

Projets de sagesse (1811), and, in collaboration with Emile

Deschamps, Selmours de Florian (1818), which ran for a hundred

nights; also La Reine d'Espagne (1831), which proved too

indecent for the public taste; a novel, Fragalelta: Naples el

Paris en 1799 (1829), which attained a success of notoriety;

La Vallee aux coups (18 33), a volume of prose essays and verse;

and two volumes of poems, Les Adieux (1843) and Les A grestes

(1844). Latouche's chief claim to remembrance is that he

revealed to the world the genius of André Chénier, then only

known to a limited few. The remains of the poet's work had

passed from the hands of Daunou to Latouche, who had sufficient

critical insight instantly to recognize their value. In editing the

first selection of Chénier's poems (1819) he made some trifling

emendations, but did not, as Béranger afterwards asserted, make

radical and unnecessary changes. Latouche was guilty of more

than one literary fraud. He caused a licentious story of his

own to be attributed to the duchesse de Duras, the irreproachable

author of Ourika. He made many enemies by malicious attacks

on his contemporaries. The Conslilulionnel was suppressed in

1817 by the government for an obscure political allusion in an

article by Latouche. He then undertook the management of

the Mercure du XIX” siecle, and began a bitter 'warfare against

the monarchy. After 1830 he edited the Figaro, and spared

neither the liberal politicians nor the romanticists who triumphed

under the monarchy of July. In his turn he was violently

attacked by Gustave Planche in the Revue des deux monde;

for November 1831. But it must be remembered to the credit

of Latouche that he did much to encourage George Sand at the

beginning of her career. The last twenty years of his life were

spent in retirement at Aulnay, where he died on the 9th of

March 1851.

Sainte-Beuve, in the Causeries du lundi, vol. 3, gives a not too

sympathetic portrait of Latouche. See also George Sand in the

Siéele for the 18th, 19th and 20th of luly 1851.

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<section begin="s3"/>'''LA TOUR, MAURICE QUENTIN DE''' (1704-1788), French

pastel list, was born at St Quentin on the 5th of September 1704. After leaving Picardy for Paris in 1727 he entered the studio of Spoéde-an upright man, but a poor master, rector of the academy of St Luke, who still continued, in the teeth of the Royal Academy, the traditions of the old gild of the master painters of Paris. This possibly contributed to the adoption by

La Tour of a line of work foreign to that imposed by an academical training; for pastels, though occasionally used, were not a principal and distinct branch of work until 1720, when Rosalba Carriera brought them into fashion with the Parisian world. In 1737 La Tour exhibited the first of that splendid series of a

hundred and fifty portraits which formed the glory of the Salon

for the succeeding thirty-seven years. In 1746 he was received

into the academy; and in 1751, the following year to that

in which he received the title of painter to the king, he was

promoted by that body to the grade of councillor. His work

had the rare merit of satisfying at once both the taste of his

fashionable models and the judgment of his brother artists.

His art, consummate of its kind, achieved the task of flattering

his sitters, whilst hiding that flattery behind the just and striking

likeness which, says Pierre Jean Mariette, he hardly ever missed.

His portraits of Rousseau, of Voltaire, of Louis XV., of his queen,

of the dauphin and dauphiness, are at once documents and

masterpieces unsurpassed except by his life-size portrait of

Madame de Pompadour, which, exhibited at the Salon of 1755,

became the chief ornament of the cabinet of pastels in the Louvre.

The museum of St Quentin also possesses a magnificent collection

of works which at his death were in his own hands. La Tour

retired to St Quentin at the age of 80, and there he died on the

18th of February 1788. The riches amassed during his long life

were freely bestowed by him in great part before his death; he

founded prizes at the school of fine arts in Paris and for the

town of Amiens, and endowed St Quentin with a great number

of useful and charitable institutions. He never married, but

lived on terms of warm affection with his brother (who survived

him, and left to the town the drawings now in the museum);

and his relations to Mlle Marie Fel (1713-1789), the celebrated

singer, were distinguished by a strength and depth of feeling

not common to the loves of the 18th century.

See, in addition to the general works on French art, C. Desmeze, M. Q. de La Tour, peantre du roi (1854); Champfleury, Les Peintres de Laon et de St Quentin (1855); and “ La Tour " in the Collection des artistes eélebres (1886);' E. and J. de Goncourt, La Tour (1867); Guiffrey and M. Tourneux, Correspondence inédite de M. G. de la Tour (1885); Tourneux, La Tour, biographies critique (1904); and Patoux, L'CEuvre de M . Quentin de la Tour au musée cle St Quentin (St Quentin, 1882).

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<section begin="s4"/>'''LA TOUR D'AUVERGNE, THEOPHILE MALO''' (1743-1800),

French soldier, was born at Carhaix in Brittany on the 23rd of

December 1743, the son of an advocate named Corret. His

desire for a military career being strongly marked, he was enabled,

by the not uncommon device of producing a certificate

of nobility signed by his friends, first to be nominally enlisted in

the Maison du Roi, and soon afterwards to receive a commission

in the line, under the name of Corret de Kerbaufret. Four

years after joining, in 1771, he assumed by leave of the duke

of Bouillon the surname of La Tour d'Auvergne, being in fact

descended from an illegitimate half-brother of the great Turenne.

Many years of routine service with his regiment were broken

only by his participation as a volunteer in the duc de Crillon's

Franco-Spanish expedition to Minorca in 1781. This led to an

offer of promotion into the Spanish army, but he refused to

change his allegiance. In 1748 he was promoted captain, and in

1791 he received the cross of St Louis. In the early part of the

Revolution his patriotism was still more conspicuously displayed

in his resolute opposition to the proposals of many of his brother

officers in the Angoumois regiment to emigrate rather than to

swear to the constitution. In 1792 his lifelong interest in

numismatics and questions of language was shown by a work

which he published on the Bretons. At this time he was serving

under Montesquiou in the Alps, and although there was only

outpost fighting he distinguished himself by his courage and

audacity, qualities which were displayed in more serious fighting

in the Pyrenees the next year. He declined well-earned promotion

to colonel, and, being broken in health and compelled,

owing to the loss of his teeth, to live on milk, he left the army in

1795. On his return by sea to Brittany he was captured by the

English and held prisoner for two years. When released, he

settled at Passy and published Origines gauloises, but in 1797,

on the appeal of an old friend whose son had been taken as a

conscript, he volunteered as the youth's substitute, and served

on the Rhine (1797) and in Switzerland (1798-1799) as a captain.

In recognition of his singular bravery and modesty Carnot

obtained a decree from the first consul naming LaTour d'Auvergne

“ first grenadier of France ” (27th of April ISOO). This led him

to volunteer again, and he was killed in action at Oberhausen,

near Donauworth, on the 27th of June 1800.

La Tour d'Auvergne's almost legendary courage had captivated the imagination of the French soldier, and his memory was not suffered to die. It was customary for the French troops and their allies of the Rhine Confederation under Napoleon to march at attention when passing his burial-place on the battlefield. His heart was long carried by the grenadier company of his regiment, the 46th, after being in the possession of Garibaldi for many years, it was finally deposited in the keeping of the city of Paris in 1883. But the most striking tribute to his memory is paid to-day as it was by order of the first consul in 1800. “ His name is to be kept on the pay list and roll of his company. It will be called at all parades and a non-commissioned officer will reply, Mort au champ d'honneu1'.” This custom, with little variation, is still observed in the 46th regiment on all occasions when the colour is taken on parade.<section end="s4"/><noinclude><references/></div></noinclude>

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