Chaumette, Pierre, a violent extremist in the French Revolution who
provoked even Robespierre’s disgust; guillotined, 1794
Childs, the clergy coffee-house in St. Paul’s. St. James’s (ib.) in
the street of that name, was the resort of beaux and statesmen and a
notorious gambling house
Chillingworth, William, an able English controversial divine; suffered
at the hands of the Puritans as an adherent of Charles I. (1602-43)
Churchill, Charles, a clergyman and satirical Poet who attacked Johnson
in The Ghost (1731-64)
Clootz, a French Revolutionary and one of the founders of the “Worship
of Reason:” guillotined 1794
Colburn, (Zerah), b. at Vermont, U.S.A., in 1804, and noted in youth for
his extraordinary powers of calculation (d. 1840)
Coligni, Gaspard de, French admiral and leader of the Huguenots;
massacred on St. Bartholomew’s Eve, 1572
Colle, Charles, dramatist and song-writer (d. 1777); young Crebillon (d.
1777) wrote fiction
Condorcet, a French Marquis (1743-94) of moderate Revolutionary
tendencies, who fell a victim to the Extremists He wrote extensively and
clearly, but without genius