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FERRAND, ANTOINE FRANCOIS CLAUDE, COMTE

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 282 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FERRAND, See also:ANTOINE See also:FRANCOIS See also:CLAUDE, See also:COMTE 0751-1825), See also:French statesman and See also:political writer, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 4th of See also:July 1751, and became a member of the See also:parlement of Paris at eighteen. He See also:left See also:France with the first party of emigrants, and attached himself to the See also:prince of See also:Conde; later he was a member of the See also:council of regency formed by the cemte de See also:Provence after the See also:death of See also:Louis XVI. He lived at See also:Regensburg until 1801, when he returned to France, though he still sought to serve the royalist cause. In 1814 Ferrand was made See also:minister of See also:state and postmaster-See also:general. He countersigned the See also:act of See also:sequestration of See also:Napoleon's See also:property, and introduced a See also:bill for the restoration of the property of the emigrants, establishing a distinction, since become famous, between royalists of la ligne droite and those of la ligne courbe. At the second restoration Ferrand was again for a See also:short See also:time postmaster-general. He was also made a peer of France, member of the privy council, See also:grand-officer and secretary of the orders of See also:Saint See also:Michel and the Saint Esprit, and in 1816 member of the See also:Academy, He continued his active support of ultra-royalist views until his death, which took See also:place in Paris on the 17th of See also:January 1825. Besides a large number of political See also:pamphlets, Ferrand is the author of L'Esprit de l'histoire, ou Lettres d'un Pere a son fits sur la maniere d'itudier l'histoire (4 vols., 1802), which reached seven See also:editions, the last number in 1826 having prefixed to it a See also:biographical See also:sketch of the author by his See also:nephew Hericart de Thury; Eloge historique de Madame Elisabeth de France (1814); tEuvres dramatiques (1817); Theorie See also:des revolutions rapprochee des evenements qui en ont ete l'origine, le developpement, ou la See also:suite (4 vols., 1817) ; and Histoire des trots demembrements de to Pologne, pour faire suite a t'Histoire de l'anarchie de Pologne See also:par See also:Rulhiere (3 vols., 1820).

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