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VOLNEY, CONSTANTIN See also:FRANCOIS CHASSEBCEUF, See also:COMTE DE (1757-1820) , See also:French savant, was See also:born at Craon (See also:Maine-et-See also:Loire) on the 3rd of See also:February 1757, of See also:good See also:family; he was at first surnamed Boisgirais from his See also:father's See also:estate, but afterwards assumed the name of Volney. He spent some four years in See also:Egypt and See also:Syria, and published his Voyage en Egypte et en Syrie in 1787, and Considerations sur la guerre See also:des Turcs et de la Russie in 1788. He was a member both of the States-See also:General and of the Constituent See also:Assembly. In 1791 appeared See also:Les Ruines, ou meditations sur les revolutions des empires, an See also:essay on the See also:philosophy of See also:history, containing a See also:vision which predicts the final See also:union of all religions by the recognition of the See also:common truth underlying them all. Volney tried to put his politico-economic theories into practice in See also:Corsica, where in 1792 he bought an estate and made an See also:attempt to cultivate colonial produce. He was thrown into See also:prison during the Jacobin See also:triumph, but escaped the See also:guillotine. He was some See also:time See also:professor of history at the newly founded Ecole Normale. In 1795 he undertook a See also:journey to the See also:United States, where he was accused in 1797 of being a French See also:spy sent to prepare for the reoccupation of See also:Louisiana by See also:France. He was obliged to return to France in 1798. The results of his travels took See also:form in his Tableau du climat et du sot des Etats-Unis (1803). He was not a See also:partisan of See also:Napoleon, but, being a moderate See also:man, a savant and a Liberal, was impressed into service by the See also:emperor, who made him a See also:count and put him into the See also:senate. At the restoration he was made a peer of France.

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Institute in 1795. He died in See also:Paris on the 25th of See also:April 182o.

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