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See also:CAULAINCOURT, ARMAND AUGUSTIN 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, See also:MARQUIS DE (1773-1827) , See also:French See also:general and diplomatist, was See also:born of a See also:noble See also:family. He See also:early entered the See also:army, did not emigrate in the revolution, but was deprived of his grade as See also:captain in 1793 and served in the ranks. In 1795, through the See also:protection of L. See also:Hoche, he became captain again, was See also:colonel in the Army of the See also:Rhine in 1799-1800, and after the See also:peace of See also:Luneville (18o1) was sent to St See also:Petersburg to negotiate an understanding between See also:Russia and See also:France. On his return he was named aide-de-See also:camp of the First See also:Consul. He was employed to seize some agents of the See also:English See also:government in See also:Baden in 1804, which led to the See also:accusation that he was concerned in the See also:arrest of the duc d'See also:Enghien, an accusation against which he never ceased to protest. After the See also:establishment of the See also:empire he received various honours and the See also:title of See also:duke of See also:Vicenza (18o8). See also:Napoleon sent him in 1807 as See also:ambassador to St Petersburg, where Caulaincourt tried to maintain the See also:alliance of See also:Tilsit, and although Napoleon's ambition made the task a difficult one, Caulaincourt succeeded in it for some years. In 1811 he strongly advised Napoleon to renounce his proposed expedition to Russia. During the See also:war he accompanied the See also:emperor, and was one of those whom Napoleon took along with him when he suddenly abandoned his army in See also:Poland to return to See also:Paris (See also:December 1812). During the last years of the empire, Caulaincourt was charged with all the See also:diplomatic negotiations. He signed the See also:armistice of Pleswitz, See also:June 1813, represented France at the See also:congress of See also:Prague, in See also:August 1813, at the congress of ChatilIon, in See also:February 1814, and concluded the
treaty of See also:Fontainebleau on the See also:roth of See also:April 1814. During the first Restoration, Caulaincourt lived in obscure retirement. When Napoleon returned from See also:Elba, he became See also:minister of See also:foreign affairs, and tried to persuade See also:Europe of the emperor's peaceful intentions. After the second Restoration, Caulaincourt's name was on the See also:list of those proscribed, but it was erased on the See also:personal intervention of See also:Alexander I. with Louis XVIII.
Caulaincourt's See also:memoirs appeared under the title Souvenirs du due de Vicence in 1837-1840. See A. Vandal, Napoleon et See also:Alexandre (Paris, 1891–1895) ; Tatischeff, Alexandre It* et Napoleon (Paris, 1892); H. See also:Houssaye, 1814 (Paris, 1888), and 1815 (Paris, 1893).
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