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  Pierre Antoine Noël Bruno, comte Daru - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Daru now returned, for a time, mainly to civil life, and entered the tribunate of the French Consulate, where he supported the principles of democracy.
In the campaigns of 1806-1807, Daru served, in his usual capacity, in the army which overthrew the forces of Russia and Prussia; and he had a share in drawing up the Treaty of Tilsit (July 7, 1807).
Daru fulfilled his usual duties in the campaign of 1809 against the Austrians.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Comte
Comte, Auguste COMTE, AUGUSTE [Comte, Auguste], 1798-1857, French philosopher, founder of the school of philosophy known as positivism, educated in Paris.
Saxe, Maurice, comte de SAXE, MAURICE, COMTE DE [Saxe, Maurice, comte de], 1696-1750, marshal of France, one of the greatest generals of his age.
Gramont, Philibert, comte de GRAMONT, PHILIBERT, COMTE DE [Gramont, Philibert, comte de], 1621-1707, French courtier at the court of King Louis XIV.
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 DARU, PIERRE ANTOINE N... - Online Information article about DARU, PIERRE ANTOINE N...
Daru fulfilled his usual duties in the campaign of 1809 against Austria.
Austrian princess came to be discussed, Daru, on being consulted by Napoleon, is said boldly to have counselled his See also:
After the second Restoration he became a member of the Chamber of Peers, in which he ably defended the cause of popular liberty against the attacks of the ultra-royalists.
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 Émile Ollivier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On May 8, however, the amended constitution was submitted, on Rouher's advice, to a plebiscite, which resulted in a vote of nearly seven to one in favour of the government.
The most distinguished members of the Left in his cabinet--LJ Buffet, Napoleon Daru and Talhouët Roy--resigned in April on the question of the plebiscite.
Ollivier himself held the ministry of foreign affairs for a few weeks, until Daru was replaced by the duc de Gramont, destined to be Ollivier's evil genius.
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 Storia della repubblica di Venezia. Traduzione dal Francese, con note ed osservazioni. En 11 volumes. - DARU, P. ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Le comte Pierre Daru, an eminent French statesman, was highly regarded by Napoleon, who made him a councillor of state, a count of the empire, and intendant-general of the imperial household, and employed him as commissary-general, financier, and negotiator.
In 1811 Daru became chief minister of state, and in 1815 he was chosen president of the French Academy.
Daru's chronological 'History of the republic of Venice' is regarded as one of the best works on the subject.
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 AllRefer.com - Daru, Pierre Antoine, Comte (French History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Daru, Pierre Antoine, Comte[pyer ANtwAn´ kONt dArU´] Pronunciation Key, 1767–1829, French soldier, administrator, statesman, and writer.
He served in the French Revolutionary Wars, was imprisoned during the Reign of Terror, and became chief of the army commissary under Napoleon I, who created him count.
Daru also filled various cabinet posts under Napoleon and was made a peer after the restoration of the Bourbons.
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 The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Summary
In order to overthrow the latter part of this hypothesis, it may be sufficient to state that the first executions took place on the 14th of May, 1618, and that it was not till the 24th of that month that the Feast of Ascension, and its gorgeous ceremonies, occurred in the same year.
Comte Daru, on the other hand, first explains a design which it is notorious was entertained by the Duke d’Ossuna to convert his viceroyalty of Naples into a kingdom, the crown of which, wrested from Spain, should be placed on his own head.
And hence he establishes the impossibility that d’Ossuna should at the same moment be plotting the overthrow of Venice; that power whose assistance, or at least whose connivance was one of the weapons most necessary for his success.
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 Naval History of Great Britain by William James   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
I am indebted for the knowledge of it to the Count Daru, whose able History of Venice we have already cited.
In 1805 M. Daru was at Boulogne, the intendant general of the army.
Daru found him transported with rage, striding up and down his apartment, and only breaking a sullen silence by the abrupt and sudden exclamations - " What a navy !
www.pbenyon.plus.com /Naval_History/Vol_III/Vol_III_P_320.htm   (448 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Paul-Maximilien-Emile Littre
He then studied medicine and he was about to obtain his degree, when his father died and he was compelled to abandon his studies to make a living for his mother, by teaching Greek and Latin for a time.
It was towards 1840 that he was initiated into the Positivist philosophy and got acquainted with Auguste Comte, of whom he soon became an independent follower.
In 1863, he was a candidate for the French Academy, but owing to the strong opposition of Mgr Dupanloup, Bishop of Orléans, who denounced his works as immoral and impious, he was rejected.
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 Encyclopedia: French History: Biographies
Angoulême, Charles de Valois, comte d'Auvergne, duc d'
Lally, Thomas Arthur, baron de Tollendal, comte de
Rochambeau, Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de
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 Royal News 2006, Section III
Comte Pierre de La Rochefoucauld (son of Comte Jacques de La Rochefoucauld and of his wife, née Béatrice Gilli) and his wife, née Alix van der Kemp (daughter of Frank van der Kemp and of Mme Elisabeth de Ribes) had their first child, Jacques-Olivier, on 27 April.
[He was born at Paris in 1929, son of Comte Charles de Lambilly and of his wife, née Lydie de Rohan Chabot (herself the daughter of Comte Guillaume de Rohan Chabot and of his wife, née Nadine de La Rousselière Clouard).
Comte Louis-Elzéar de Sabran-Pontevès (son of Comte Elzéar de Sabran-Pontevès and of his wife, née Edith de Marmiesse de Lussan) and his wife, née Caroline Duffau (daughter of Patrick Duffau and of his wife, née Marie Denjean-Mousterry) had their first child, Élzéar, at Bordeaux on 30 August.
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 AllRefer Encyclopedia - French History, Biographies Encyclopedia
• Choiseul, CEsar, comte Du Plessis-Praslin, duc de
• Lally, Thomas Arthur, baron de Tollendal, comte de
• Montgomery, Gabriel, seigneur de Lorges, comte de
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 ArchiveGrid.org - historical sources from thousands of archives
Chaptal, Jean Antoine Claude, comte de Chanteloup, 1756-1832
Destutt de Tracy, Antoine Louis Claude, comte, 1754-1836
Latour Maubourg, Marie Charles César Fay, comte de, 1758-1831
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 Napoleonic Society of Georgia
1811 - Nov. 1811: Pierre-Antoine-Noel-Bruno DARU, comte (1767-1829).
1799 - Sept. 1802: Andre-Joseph ABRIAL, comte (1750-1828).
1800 - Oct. 1800: Lazare-Nicolas-Marguerite CARNOT, comte (1753-1823).
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 Venise paris, de venise l, venise l   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Between Paris and Jerusalem, initiatory trip if ever there was, the City of the Doges could not fail to charm.
Of Daru's literary works may be mentioned his Histoire de Venise, published at Paris in 7 vols.
One of Gobo's smaller etchings, it is a brilliant example of how the artist captured the numerous.
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 France
16 Jul 1316-13/14 Nov 1316 Philippe de France, comte (b.
(abdicated in favor of Henri V, comte de Chambord [b.
(abdicated in favor of Louis-Phillippe II, comte de Paris [b.
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 Volume 1, Chapter 8
On the very day when Marshal Victor brought the news of the victory of Ciudad Real, the Emperor was exercising at Paris that best of all royal prerogatives, the remission of capital sentences.
The laws of the Republic condemned to death emigrants taken with arms in their hands fighting against France, and a French lieutenant-general, the Comte de Saint-Simon, had been made prisoner leading Spanish troops in a fight near Madrid.
He was dragged before a court-martial, and the sentence of death was about to be carried out.
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 A Letter to His Countrymen
Little need be said of the mere machinery of such a plan, as the offence, if offence there be, must exist in the main design.
One of those ruthless state maxims which have been exposed by Comte Daru, in his history of Venice, furnished the leading idea of the minor plot, or the narrative.
As the main object of the work was to show the manner in which institutions that are professedly created to prevent violence and wrongs, become themselves, when perverted from their legitimate destination, the fearful instruments of injustice, a better illustration could not have been wished, than was furnished by the application of this rule.
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 The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 20, by Various - Full Text Free Book
researches of Comte Daru have brought to light some hitherto unknown
Comte Dam, are the sole authentic vouchers for this conspiracy now known
Comte Daru, on the other hand, first explains a design which it is
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