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| | Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | The Comte de la Marck was a Flemish nobleman, a close friend of the queen, and had been elected a member of the states-general. |
 | | However, in April 1790 he was suddenly recalled by the comte de Mercy-Argenteau, the Austrian ambassador at Paris, and the queen's most trusted political adviser, and from this time to Mirabeau's death he became the medium of almost daily communications between the latter and the queen. |
 | | He had long known Armand Marc, comte de Montmorin, the foreign secretary, and, as matters became more strained from the complications with the princes and counts of the empire, he entered into daily communication with the minister, advised him on every point, and, while dictating his policy, defended it in the Assembly. |
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