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ANDREOSSY , See also:ANTOINE-See also:FRANCOIS, See also:COUNT (1761-1828), See also:French soldier and diplomatist, was See also:born at See also:Castelnaudary, in See also:Languedoc, on the 6th of See also:March 1761. He was of See also:Italian extraction, and his ancestor Francois Andreossy (1633-1688) had been concerned with Riquet in the construction of the Languedoc See also:Canal in 1669. He had a brilliant career at the school of See also:artillery at See also:Metz, obtained his See also:commission in 1781, and became See also:captain in 1788. On the outbreak of the Revolution he adopted its principles. He, saw active service on the See also:Rhine in 1794 and in See also:Italy in 1795, and in the See also:campaign of 1796-97 was employed in engineer duties with the See also:Army of Italy. He became chef de See also:brigade in See also:December 1796 and See also:general of brigade in 1798, in which See also:year he accompanies See also:Bonaparte to See also:Egypt. He served in the See also:Egyptian campaign with distinction, and was selected as one of See also:Napoleon's companions on his return to See also:Europe. Andreossy took See also:part in the coup d'etat of the 18th of See also:Brumaire, and on the 6th of See also:January 1800 was made general of See also:division. Of particular importance was his See also:term of See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office as See also:ambassador to See also:England during the See also:short See also:peace which followed the See also:treaties of See also:Amiens and See also:Luneville. It had been shown (Coquille, Napoleon and England, 1904) that Andreossy repeatedly warned Napoleon that the See also:British See also:government desired to maintain peace but must be treated with See also:consideration. His See also:advice, however, was disregarded. When Napoleon became See also:emperor he made Andreossy inspector-general of artillery and a count of the See also:empire. In the See also:war of 18o5 Andreossy was employed on the headquarters See also:staff of Napoleon. From 18o8 to 1809 he was French ambassador at See also:Vienna, where he displayed a hostility to See also:Austria which was in marked contrast to his friendliness to England in 1802-1803. In the war of 1809, Andreossy was military See also:governor of Vienna during the French occupation. In 1812 he was sent by Napoleon as ambassador to See also:Constantinople, where he carried on the policy initiated by See also:Sebastian. In 1814 he was recalled by See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XVIII. Andreossy now retired into private See also:life, till the See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape of his former See also:master from See also:Elba once again called him forth. In 1826 he was elected to the See also:Academic See also:des Sciences, and in the following year was See also:deputy for the See also:department of the See also:Aude. His numerous See also:works included the following:—on artillery (with which See also:arm he was most intimately connected throughout his military career), Quelques idees relatives a l'usage de l'artillerie clans l'attaque et . . . la defense des places (Metz) ; Essai sur le tir des projectiles creux (See also:Paris, 1826); and on military See also:history, Campagne sur le See also:Main et la Rednitz de l'armee gallo-batave (Paris, 18o2); Operations des pontonniers en See also:Italic . . . 1795-1796 (Paris, 1843). He also wrote scientific See also:memoirs on the mouth of the See also:Black See also:Sea (1818-1819); on certain Egyptian lakes (during his stay in Egypt); and in particular the history of the Languedoc Canal (Histoire du canal du Midi, 2nd ed., Paris, 1804), the See also:chief See also:credit of which he claimed for his ancestor. Andreossy died at See also:Montauban in 1828.
See See also:Marion, See also:Notice necrologique sur le Lt.-General See also:Comte Andreossy.
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