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CHARLES XAVIER JOSEPH DE FRANQUEVILLE...

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

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