Trophime Gerard Lally-Tollendal, marquis de, a French politician, son of the preceding, born in Paris, March 5, 1751, died March 11, 1830. Although of legitimate birth, he was brought up, under the name of Trophime, in ignorance of his parentage until the eve of his father's execution. He first made himself known by his untiring efforts, during 12 years, to procure the reversal of his father's sentence, in which he secured the assistance of Voltaire, who wrote in his behalf. In 1789 he was one of the deputies of the nobles to the states general; he supported moderate reforms, and favored the establishment of a constitutional monarchy with two chambers and an absolute power of veto vested in the king; but after the events of Oct. 5 and 6 he was so alarmed at the course of the revolutionists that he retired with Mounier to Coppet in Switzerland. There, under the title of Quintus Capitolinus aux Romains, he published in 1790 a pamphlet censuring the proceedings of the constituent assembly. He returned to Paris in 1792 to oppose the Jacobins, and was imprisoned, but escaped to England a few days previous to the September massacre. In 1793 he asked to be appointed one of the counsel of King Louis XVI., but was not answered.

He returned to France after the 18th Brumaire, and lived in retirement until the return of the Bourbons, when he was made a peer.