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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 337 — BOOK V

Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation

Louis Gustave Le Doulcet, Comte de Pontécoulant (1764-1853), had, as a member of the Convention, resisted the excesses of 1793 and was outlawed and fled to Zurich. He returned after the Terror and filled various military and diplomatic offices under Napoleon, who created him a count (1808). Louis XVIII. made him a peer of France, and for over thirty years he took a prominent part in the work of the House of Peers.—T.

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