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The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England. volume 5 (of 6), Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 5

Note 279 — BOOK XV[263]

Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation

Antoine Louis Marie de Gramont, Duc de Guiche (1755-1836), emigrated to England during the Revolution and, as "Captain Gramont," served in the 10th Hussars. He returned to France with the Duc d'Angoulême as first aide-de-camp, and was created a peer of France in June 1814. He took the oath of allegiance to the new Government after the Revolution of July, and remained a peer till his death.—B.

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