By Louis XVIII. he was ennobled and named a councillor of state; and from 1816 he sat in the chamber of deputies as representative of Ain. At first he supported the ministry, but when they began to show signs of reaction he separated from them, and gradually came to be at the head of the constitutional opposition. His speeches in the chamber were always eloquent and powerful. Though warned by failing health to resign, Camille Jordan remained at his post till his death at Paris, on the 19th of May 1821. To his pen we owe _Lettre à M. Lamourette_ (1791); _Histoire de la conversion d'une dame Parisienne_ (1792); _La Loi et la religion vengées_ (1792); _Adresse à ses commettants sur la révolution du 4 Septembre 1797_ (1797); _Sur les troubles de Lyon_ (1818); _La Session de 1817_ (1818). His _Discours_ were collected in 1818. The "Fragments choisis," and translations from the German, were published in _L'Abeille française_. Besides the various histories of the time, see further details vol. x. of the _Revue encyclopédique_; a paper on Jordan and Madame de Staël, by C. A. Sainte-Beuve, in the _Revue des deux mondes_ for March 1868 and R. Boubée, "Camille Jordan à Weimar," in the _Correspondant_ (1901), ccv. 718-738 and 948-970. JORDAN, DOROTHEA (1762-1816), Irish actress, was born near Waterford, Ireland, in 1762. Her mother, Grace Phillips, at one time known as Mrs Frances, was a Dublin actress. Her father, whose name was Bland, was according to one account an army captain, but more probably a stage hand. Dorothy Jordan made her first appearance on the stage in 1777 in Dublin as Phoebe in _As You Like It_. After acting elsewhere in Ireland she appeared in 1782 at Leeds, and subsequently at other Yorkshire towns, in a variety of parts, including Lady Teazle. It was at this time that she began calling herself Mrs Jordan. In 1785 she made her first London appearance at Drury Lane as Peggy in _A Country Girl_. Before the end of her first season she had become an established public favourite, her acting in comedy being declared second only to that of Kitty Clive. Her engagement at Drury Lane lasted till 1809, and she played a large variety of parts. But gradually it came to be recognized that her special talent lay in comedy, her Lady Teazle, Rosalind and Imogen being specially liked, and such "breeches" parts as William in _Rosina_. During the rebuilding of Drury Lane she played at the Haymarket; she transferred her services in 1811 to Covent Garden. Here, in 1814, she made her last appearance on the London stage, and the following year, at Margate, retired altogether. Mrs Jordan's private life was one of the scandals of the period. She had a daughter by her first manager, in Ireland, and four children by Sir Richard Ford, whose name she bore for some years. In 1790 she became the mistress of the duke of Clarence (afterwards William IV.), and bore him ten children, who were ennobled