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See also:MIRABEAU, See also:ANDRE See also:BONIFACE 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 RIQUETI, VICOMTE DE (1754-1792) , See also:brother of the orator Mirabeau, was one of the reactionary leaders at the opening of the See also:French Revolution. Sent to the See also:army in See also:Malta in 1776 he spent See also:part of his two years there in See also:prison for insulting a religious procession. During the See also:War of See also:American See also:Independence he was in several See also:sea-fights with the See also:English, and was at the taking of See also:Yorktown in 1781. In the following See also:year he had two narrow escapes from drowning. In 1789, with his debts paid up by his See also:father, he was elected by the noblesse of See also:Limoges a See also:deputy to the States See also:General. He was a violent Conservative and opposed everything that threatened the old regime. His See also:drunkenness produced a corpulency which brought him the See also:nickname Mirabeau Tonneau (" See also:Barrel Mirabeau "); but he was not lacking in some of that insight which marked his brother. He shared fully in the See also:eccentric See also:family See also:pride; and boasted of his brother's See also:genius even when bitterly opposing him. He emigrated about 1790, and raised a See also:legion which was to See also:bear his name; but his insolence alienated the See also:German princes, and his command was taken from him. He died in See also:August 1792—of See also:apoplexy or from a See also:duel—in See also:Freiburg See also:im See also:Breisgau. He wrote some See also:verse as well as various See also:pamphlets.
See See also:Joseph See also:Sarrazin, Mirabeau Tonneau, ein See also:Condottiere aus der Revolutionszeit (See also:Leipzig, 1893) ; and La Revolution francaise, vols. xxi. and See also:xxiv.; See also:Eugene Berger, Le Vicomte de Mirabeau(Mirabeau Tonneau), 7754–1792 (1904) ; and for a See also:list of contemporary pamphlets, &c., M. See also:Tourneux, Bibliographie de la ville de See also:Paris..., vol. iv. (1906).
End of Article: MIRABEAU, ANDRE BONIFACE LOUIS RIQUETI, VICOMTE DE (1754-1792)
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