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See also:SAINT See also:PRIEST, See also:FRANCOIS See also:EMMANUEL GUIGNARD, See also:CHEVALIER , then See also:COMTE DE (1735-1821), See also:French statesman, was See also:born at See also:Grenoble on the 12th of See also:March 1735. He was admitted a See also:knight (chevalier) of the See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
Order of See also:Malta at five years of See also:age, and at fifteen entered the See also:army. He See also:left active service in 1763 with the grade of See also:colonel, and for the next four years represented the See also:court of See also:France at See also:Lisbon. He was sent in 1768 to See also:Constantinople, where he remained with one See also:short See also:interval till 1785, and married See also:Wilhelmina von See also:Ludolf, daughter of the Neapolitan See also:ambassador. His Memoires sur l'ambassade de France en Turquie et le See also:commerce See also:des See also:Francais clans le See also:Levant, prepared during a visit to France, were only published in 1877, when they were edited by C. See also:Schefer. After a few months spent at the court of the See also:Hague, he joined the See also:ministry of See also:Necker as See also:minister without a See also:portfolio, and in Necker's second See also:cabinet in 1789 was secretary of the royal See also:household and minister of the interior. He became a See also:special See also:object of the popular hatred because he was alleged to have replied to See also:women begging for See also:bread, " You had enough while you had only one See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king; demand bread of your twelve See also:hundred sovereigns." Nevertheless he held See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office until See also:December 1790. Shortly after his resignation he went to See also:Stockholm, where his See also:brother-in-See also:law was See also:Austrian ambassador. In 1795 he joined the comte de See also:Provence at See also:Verona as minister of the household. He accompanied the exiled court to See also:Blankenburg and Mittau, retiring in 18o8 to See also:Switzerland. After vainly seeking permission to return to France he was expelled from Switzerland, and wandered about See also:Europe until the Restoration. Besides the See also:memoirs already mentioned he wrote an Examen des assemblies provinciales (1787).
His eldest son, See also:GUILLAUME EMMANUEL (1776-1814), became See also:major-See also:general in the See also:Russian service, and served in the See also:campaigns of See also:Alexander I. against See also:Napoleon. He died at See also:Laon in 1814. The second, ARMAND EMMANUEL See also:CHARLES (1782-1863), became See also:civil See also:governor of See also:Odessa, and married Princess Sophie Galitzin. The third, EMMANUEL 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:MARIE GUIGNARD, vicomte de Saint Priest (1789-1881), was a godson of Marie Antoinette. Like his See also:elder brother he took See also:part in the invasion of France in 1814. At the Restoration he was attached to the service of the See also:duke of Angoulelne, and during the Hundred Days tried to raise See also:Dauphine in the royal cause. He served with distinction in See also:Spain in 1823, when he was promoted See also:lieutenant-general. After two years at See also:Berlin he became French ambassador at See also:Madrid, where he negotiated in 1828 the See also:settlement of the See also:Spanish See also:debt. When the revolution of See also:July compelled his retirement, See also:Frederick VII. made him a See also:grandee of Spain, with the See also:title of duke of Almazan, in recognition of his services. He then joined the circle of the duchess of See also:Berry at See also:Naples, and arranged her escapade in Provence in 1832. Saint Priest was arrested, and was only released after ten months' imprisonment. Having arranged for an See also:asylum in See also:Austria for the duchess, he returned to See also:Paris, where he was one of the leaders of legitimist society until his See also:death, which occurred at Saint Priest, near See also:Lyons, on the 26th of See also:February 1881.
End of Article: SAINT PRIEST, FRANCOIS EMMANUEL GUIGNARD, CHEVALIER
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