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BOULAINVILLIERS, See also:HENRI, See also:COMTE DE (1658-1722) , See also:French See also:political writer, was See also:born at St Saire in See also:Normandy in 1658. He was educated at the See also:college of Juilly, and served in the See also:army until 1697. He wrote a number of See also:historical See also:works (published after his See also:death), of which the most important were the following: Histoire de l'ancien gouvernement de la See also:France (La Haye, 1727); Etat de la France, avec See also:des memoires sur l'ancien gouvernement (See also:London, 1727); Histoire de la pairie de France (London, 1753); Histoire des Arabes (1731). His writings are characterized byan extravagant admiration of the feudal See also:system. He was an aristocrat of the most pronounced type, attacking See also:absolute See also:monarchy on the one See also:hand and popular See also:government on the other. He was at See also:great pains to prove the pretensions of his own See also:family to See also:ancient See also:nobility, and maintained that the government should be entrusted solely to men of his class. He died in See also:Paris on the 23rd of See also:January 1722.

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