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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 317 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARQUIS DE See also:FRANCOIS See also:CLAUDE AMOUR See also:BOUILLE (1739-1800)  , See also:French See also:general . He served in the Seven Years' See also:War, and as See also:governor in the See also:Antilles conducted operations against the See also:English in the War of See also:American See also:Independence . On his return to See also:France he was named governor of the Three Bishoprics, of See also:Alsace and of Franche-See also:Comte . Hostile to the Revolution, he had continual quarrels with the See also:municipality of See also:Metz, and brutally suppressed the military insurrections at Metz and See also:Nancy, which had been provoked by the harsh conduct of certain See also:noble See also:officers . Then he proposed to See also:Louis XVI. to take See also:refuge in a frontier See also:town where an See also:appeal could be made to other nations against the revolutionists . When this project failed as a result of Louis XVI.'s See also:arrest at Varennes, See also:Bouille went to See also:Russia to induce See also:Catherine II. to intervene in favour of the See also:king, and then to See also:England, where he died in 1800, after serving in various royalist attempts on France . He See also:left Memoires sur la Revolution francaise depuis son origine jusqu'd la retraite du duc de See also:Brunswick (See also:Paris, 18o1) .

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