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Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 2 (of 2)

Note 188 — 578.

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The Duc de Broglie (1718-1804), one of the most distinguished of the French generals during the Seven Years' War, was made a marshal in 1759. Louis XVI. appointed him in 1789 Minister of War; but he was among the earliest of the émigrés. He entered the Russian service in 1794.

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