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FOSSOMBRONI, VITTORIO, COUNT (1g54-1844)

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FOSSOMBRONI, See also:VITTORIO, See also:COUNT (1g54-1844) , Tuscan statesman and mathematician, was See also:born at See also:Arezzo. He was educated at the university of See also:Pisa, where he devoted himself particularly to See also:mathematics. He obtained an See also:official See also:appointment in See also:Tuscany in 1782, and twelve years later was entrusted by the See also:grand See also:duke with the direction of the See also:works for the drainage of the Val di See also:Chiana, on which subject he had published a See also:treatise in 1789. In 1796 he was made See also:minister for See also:foreign affairs, but on the See also:French occupation of Tuscany in 1799 he fled to See also:Sicily. On the erection of the grand duchy into the ephemeral See also:kingdom of See also:Etruria, under the See also:queen-See also:regent Maria Louisa, he was appointed See also:president of the See also:commission of See also:finance. In 1809 he went to See also:Paris as one of the senators for Tuscany to pay See also:homage to See also:Napoleon. He was made president of the legislative commission on the restoration of the grand duke See also:Ferdinand III. in 1814, and subsequently See also:prime minister, which position he retained under the grand duke See also:Leopold II. His See also:administration, which was only terminated by his See also:death, greatly contributed to promote the well-being of the See also:country. He was the real See also:master of Tuscany, and the bases of his See also:rule were equality of all subjects before the See also:law, honesty in the administration of See also:justice and See also:toleration of See also:opinion, but he totally neglected the moral improvement of the See also:people. At the See also:age of seventy-eight he married, and twelve years afterwards died, in 1844.

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