Pierre Louis Jean Casimir de Blacas (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pierre Louis Jean Casimir de Blacas d'Aulps, Duke and later also Prince of Blacas (10 January 1771, Avignon, Var, France - 17 November 1839, Gorizia, Austria) was a French antiquarian, nobleman and diplomat during the Bourbon Restoration.He was baptized at Avignon on 11 January 1771. He was the son of an aristocrat from Provence and took an opposing view of the French Revolution. In 1790, while a sous-lieutenant in the Noailles dragoons from Tarn, he fled across the Var to Nice in the Kingdom of Sardinia. From there, he went to the German frontier town of Coblenz and joined the counter-revolutionary migr army of Louis XVI's cousin, the Prince de Cond. Later, he went through Italy before entering the service of Russia and fighting the French Republic in Switzerland under Alexander Suvorov.