Lives of Remarkable Characters, Vol. 3 of 3: Who Have Distinguished Themselves from the Commencement of the French Revolution, to the Present Time (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Beauchamp, Alph. De

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ISBN 10 : 0260942448 ISBN 13 : 9780260942449

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Lives of Remarkable Characters, Vol. 3 of 3: Who Have Distinguished Themselves From the Commencement of the French Revolution, to the Present Time

M irabeau (honore gabriel-riquetti, comte de) was born in youthful imuosity and ungoverned passions made the early part of his life a scene of disorder and misery. After having been some years in the army, and served in Corsica, he married Mademoiselle de Marignane, a rich heiress in the city of Aix, but the union was not fortunate, and his extravagant expenses deranging his affairs, he contracted debts to the amount of livres, in consequence of which his father Obtained from the Chatelet an act of lunacy against him. Enraged at this he went to settle at Manosque, whence he was, on account of a private quarrel, some time afterwards removed; and in 1794 was shut up in the castle of If: he was then conveyed to that of J oux in Franche Comte, and obtained permission to go occasionally to Pontarlier, where he met Sophie de Bufl'ey, mar chioness of Monnier, the wife of a president in the parliament of Besancon. Her wit and beauty ih spired Mirabeau with a most violent passion, and he soon escaped to Holland with her, but was for this outrage condemned to lose his head, and would probably have ended his days far from his countr had not an agent of the police seized him in conveyed him back to France, and carried him to the castle of Vincennes, where he remained till the month of December, 1780, when he recovered his liberty. The first use he made of it was to bring an action at law against his wife, who refused to live with him again: he pleaded his own cause before the parliament of Aix, but lost it, and his wife Oh vol. III. B.

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• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0260942448
• ISBN 13: 9780260942449
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 330
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