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| | VICTOR RIQUETI, MARQUIS DE MIRABEAU - LoveToKnow Article on VICTOR RIQUETI, MARQUIS DE MIRABEAU (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | MIRABEAU, VICTOR RIQUETI, MARQUIS DE French author and political economist, father of the great Mirabeau, was born at Pertuis, near the old chteau de Mirabeau, on the 4th of October 1715. |
 | | While in garrison at Bordeaux Mirabeau had made the acquaintance of Montesquieu, and after retiring from the army he wrote his first work, his Testament Politique (747), which demanded for the prosperity of France a return of the French noblesse to their old position in the middle ages. |
 | | For details of his life consult Peuchet, Mirabeau: Mimoires sur sa vie littiraire et privee (1824); and the Ivlimoires biographiques, littiraires et politiques de Mirabeau, ecrits par lui-mme, par son pere, son oncle et son fils ado ptif, which was issued by his adopted son, Lucas de Montigny (8 vols., Paris, 1834-1835). |
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