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The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England. volume 3 (of 6), Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 3

Note 245 — BOOK IV

Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation

Henri Jacques Guillaume Clarke, Maréchal Comte d'Hunebourg, Duc de Feltre (1765-1818), descended from an Irish family, had been one of Napoleon's generals, and Minister of War from 1807. After rallying to the Bourbons, he managed the War Office at a time of the greatest difficulty, and was created a marshal of France after the Second Restoration, in 1816. The Duc de Feltre retired in 1817, a year before his death.—T.

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