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See also: Antilles conducted operations against the See also: English in the War of See also: American Independence
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On his return to See also: France he was named governor of the Three Bishoprics, of See also: Alsace and of Franche-Comte
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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
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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
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When this project failed as a result of Louis XVI.'s arrest at Varennes, 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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