French Counter-Revolutionaries - Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand, Vincent-Marie Vienot, Count of Vaublanc, Joseph de Maistre, Legitimists (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 32. Chapters: Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand, Vincent-Marie Vienot, Count of Vaublanc, Joseph de Maistre, Legitimists, Louis Joseph, Prince of Conde, Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, Hugues Felicite Robert de Lamennais, Louis-Victor-Leon de Rochechouart, Joseph-Genevieve de Puisaye, Louis-Alexandre de Launay, comte d'Antraigues, Pierre Louis Jean Casimir de Blacas, Louis Gabriel Ambroise de Bonald, La Marseillaise des Blancs, Mathieu de Montmorency, Clerical philosophers, Pierre-Edouard Lemontey, Aime Picquet du Boisguy, Louis Hercule Timoleon de Cosse-Brissac, Thomas Laurent Madeleine Duverne de Presle, Jacques Anne Joseph Le Prestre de Vauban, Charles Louis Francois de Paule de Barentin, Jean-Pierre du Teil, Claude-Augustin Tercier, Charles Honore Berthelot La Villeheurnois, Elisabeth Francoise Armide de Rochechouart, Charles Eugene Gabriel de Sombreuil, Charles de Bouvens. Excerpt: Vincent-Marie Vienot, Count of Vaublanc (2 March 1756 - 21 August 1845) was a French royalist politician, writer and artist. He was a deputy for the Seine-et-Marne in the French Legislative Assembly, served as President of the same body, and from 26 September 1815 to 7 May 1816, he was the French Minister of the Interior. His political career had him rubbing shoulders with Louis XVI, Napoleon Bonaparte, the Count of Artois (the future Charles X of France), and finally Louis XVIII. He was banished and recalled four times by different regimes, never arrested, succeeding each time in regaining official favour. In a long and eventful career, he was successively a monarchist deputy during the Revolution and under the Directoire, an exile during the Terror, a deputy under Napoleon, Minister of the Interior to Louis XVIII and eventually, at the end of his political career, a simple ultra-royalist deputy. He is remembered now for th...