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MALOUET, See also:PIERRE See also:VICTOR, See also:BARON (1740-1814) , See also:French publicist and politician, was See also:born at See also:Riom (See also:Puy-de-See also:Dome) on the 11th of See also:February 1740, the son of a lawyer. He entered the See also:civil service and was employed successively at the French See also:embassy in See also:Lisbon, in the administrative See also:department of the duc de See also:Broglie's See also:army, as See also:commissary in See also:San Domingo from 1767-1774, and, after his return to See also:France, as commissary-See also:general of the marine. In 1776 he was entrusted to carry out plans of colonization in French See also:Guiana, but was superseded in 1779. On his return to France he was well received at See also:court, and the See also:execution of his plans in Guiana was assured. He became See also:intendant of the See also:port of See also:Toulon, and in 1789 was returned to the states-general, where he soon became well known as a defender of the monarchical principle. He emigrated to See also:England in See also:September, 1792, but shortly afterwards sought in vain permission to return to assist in the See also:defence of See also:Louis XVI. His name was erased from the See also:list of emigrants in 18o1 by See also:Napoleon, who restored him to his position in the service and sent him to See also:Antwerp as See also:commissioner-general and maritime See also:prefect to superintend the erection of defence See also:works, and the creation of a See also:fleet. He entered the See also:council of See also:state in 181o, but, having offended the See also:emperor by his plainness of speech, he was disgraced in 1812. At the Restoration, Louis XVIII. made him See also:minister of marine; and he died on the 7th of September 1814. The most important documents for his domestic and colonial policy are a Collection de ses opinions a l'Assemblee Nationale (3 vols., 1791-1792) ; and Collection de memoires et correspondances officielles sur l' See also:administration See also:des colonies et notamtnent sur la Guiane francaise et hollandaise (5 vols. 1802).

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