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BESENVAL DE BRONSTATT, See also:PIERRE See also:VICTOR, See also:BARON DE (1722-1794) , See also:French soldier, was See also:born at See also:Soleure. He was the son of See also:Jean Victor Besenval, See also:colonel of the See also:regiment of Swiss See also:guards in the pay of See also:France, who was charged in 1707 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 XIV. with a See also:mission to See also:Sweden, to reconcile See also:Charles XII. with the See also:tsar See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter the See also:Great, and to unite them in See also:alliance with France against See also:England. Pierre Victor served at first as aide-de-See also:camp to See also:Marshal See also:Broglie during the See also:campaign of 1748 in Bohemia, then as aide-de-camp to the See also:duke of See also:- ORLEANS
- ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
- ORLEANS, DUKES OF
- ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
- ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
- ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
- ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
- ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
- ORLEANS, PHILIP I
- ORLEANS, PHILIP II
Orleans during the Seven Years' See also:War. He then became See also:commander of the Swiss Guards. When the Revolution began Besenval remained firmly attached to the See also:court, and he was given command of the troops which the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king had concentrated on See also:Paris in See also:July 1789 —a See also:movement which led to the taking of the See also:Bastille on the 14th of July. Besenval showed incompetence in the crisis, See also:- ANT
- ANT (O. Eng. aemete, from Teutonic a, privative, and maitan, cut or bite off, i.e. " the biter off "; aemete in Middle English became differentiated in dialect use to (mete, then amte, and so ant, and also to emete, whence the synonym " emmet," now only u
ant. attempted to flee. He was arrested, tried by the tribunal of the See also:Chatelet, but acquitted. He then See also:fell into obscurity and died in Paris in 1794 Besenval de Bronstatt is principally known as the author of Memoires, which were published in 1805-1807 by the vicomte T. A. de See also:Segur, in which are reported many scandalous tales, true or false, of the court of Louis XVI. and See also:Marie Antoinette. The authenticity of these See also:memoirs is not absolutely established.
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