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QUINTIN CRAUFURD (1743-1819)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 382 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CRAUFURD (1743-1819)  , See also:British author, was See also:born at Kilwinnock on the 22nd of See also:September 1743 . 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 . 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:King of See also:France and his See also:Escape from Paris (first published in 1885), Researches concerning the See also:Laws, See also:Theology, Learning and See also:Commerce of See also:Ancient and See also:Modern India (1817), History of the See also:Bastille (1798), On See also:Pericles and the Arts in See also:Greece (1815), See also:Essay on See also:Swift and his Influence on the British See also:Government (18o8), See also:Notice sur Marie Antoinette, (1809), Memoires de Mme du Hausset (18o8) .

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