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QUINTIN See also:CRAUFURD (1743-1819)
, See also:British author, was See also:born at Kilwinnock on the 22nd of See also:September 1743
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In See also:early See also:life he went to See also:India, where he entered the service of the See also:East India See also:Company
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Returning to See also:Europe before the See also:age of See also:forty with a handsome See also:fortune, he settled in See also:Paris, where he gave himself to the cultivation of literature and See also:art, and formed a See also:good library and collection of paintings, coins and other See also:objects of antiquarian See also:interest
.
See also:Craufurd was on intimate terms with the See also:French See also:court, especially with See also:Marie Antoinette, and was one of those who arranged the See also:flight to Varennes
.
He escaped to See also:Brussels, but in 1792 he returned to Paris in the See also:hope of rescuing the royal prisoners
.
He lived among the French emigres until the See also:peace of See also:Amiens made it possible to return to Paris
.
Through Talleyrand's See also:influence he was able to remain in Paris after the See also:war was
renewed, and he died there on the 23rd of See also:November 1819
.
He wrote, among other See also:works, The See also:History, See also:Religion, Learning and See also:Manners of the See also:Hindus (199o), See also:Secret History of the See also: |
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