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Comte de Mirabeau

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  • The famous Comte de Mirabeau was a charter member, Marquis de Lafayette, an officer who had served in the

    The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922 Various

  • M. le Comte de Mirabeau replied, speaking without notes for near an hour in most eloquent style.

    The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure Various 1909

  • Honoré Gabriel Riquetti, Comte de Mirabeau (1749–91) Born in 1749, died in 1791; before the French Revolution, had served in Corsica, obtaining the rank of Captain; had written essays and pamphlets, traveled extensively, and been noted for dissolute habits; elected to the Convention of the States-General in 1789; attracted wide notice as an orator; became President of the Jacobin Club, and in 1791 President of the National Assembly.

    II. On Being Accused of Treasonable Relations to the Court 1906

  • Honoré Gabriel Riquetti, Comte de Mirabeau (1749–91) Born in 1749, died in 1791; before the French Revolution, had served in Corsica, obtaining the rank of Captain; had written essays and pamphlets, traveled extensively, and been noted for dissolute habits; elected to the Convention of the States-General in 1789; attracted wide notice as an orator; became President of the Jacobin Club, and in 1791 President of the National Assembly.

    I. Necker's Financial Plan 1906

  • As for me, but a few days ago it was proposed to carry me in triumph; and now, the cry is, through every street of Paris: “The Grand Treason of the Comte de Mirabeau!

    II. On Being Accused of Treasonable Relations to the Court 1906

  • Comte de Mirabeau; and Camille Desmoulins, prompt, picturesque and impertinent, logically applies the process to the King himself and rechristens Louis, _Mr.

    The French Revolution A Short History 1893

  • Correspondance entre le Comte de Mirabeau et le Comte de la Marck, i.p. 47.

    The Life of Marie Antoinette Yonge, Charles Duke, 1812-1891 1876

  • Din of battles, wars more than civil, confusion from above and from below: in such environment the eye of Prophecy sees Comte de Mirabeau, like some Cardinal de Retz, stormfully maintain himself; with head all-devising, heart all-daring, if not victorious, yet unvanquished, while life is left him.

    The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • The series consisted of adaptations of libertine fiction from the European literary canon, original authors included Marguerite of Navarre, Comte de Mirabeau, Nicolas Restif de La Bretonne, Anton Chekhov, Chaucer, Guy de Maupassant, Jean de La Fontaine, Théophile Gautier, Daniel Defoe and Aristophanes.

    Softly from Paris « Jahsonic 2008

  • The series consisted of adaptations of libertine fiction from the European literary canon, original authors included Marguerite of Navarre, Comte de Mirabeau, Nicolas Restif de La Bretonne, Anton Chekhov, Chaucer, Guy de Maupassant, Jean de La Fontaine, Théophile Gautier, Daniel Defoe and Aristophanes.

    20 « August « 2008 « Jahsonic 2008

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