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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 6 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARLES XAVIER JOSEPH DE FRANQUEVILLE ABANCOURT  D' (1758-1792), French statesman, and
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nephew of Calonne . He was Louis XVI.'s last minister of war (
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July 1792), and organized the defence of the Tuileries for the loth of August . Commanded by the Legislative Assembly to send away the Swiss guards, he refused, and was arrested for treason to the nation and sent to Orleans to be tried . At the end of August the Assembly ordered Abancourt and the other prisoners at Orleans to be transferred to Paris with an escort commanded by Claude Fournier, " the
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American." At
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Versailles they learned of the massacres at Paris, and Abancourt and his
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fellow-prisoners were murdered in cold
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blood on the 8th of September 1792 . Fournier was unjustly charged with complicity in the crime .

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