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• ANTOINE, ANDRE (1858- )

ANTOINE

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• FRANCOIS (1558-1614)

FRANCOIS

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• CLAUDE, JEAN (1619-1687)

CLAUDE

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• COMTE ANTOINE FRANCOIS CLAUDE FERRAND

FERRAND  0751-1825), French statesman and political writer, was born in Paris on the 4th of July 1751, and became a member of the parlement of Paris at eighteen . He left France with the first party of emigrants, and attached himself to the prince of Conde; later he was a member of the council of regency formed by the cemte de Provence after the death of Louis XVI . He lived at Regensburg until 1801, when he returned to France, though he still sought to serve the royalist cause . In 1814 Ferrand was made minister of state and postmaster-general . He countersigned the act of sequestration of Napoleon's property, and introduced a bill for the restoration of the property of the emigrants, establishing a distinction, since become famous, between royalists of la ligne droite and those of la ligne courbe . At the second restoration Ferrand was again for a short time postmaster-general . He was also made a peer of France, member of the privy council, grand-officer and secretary of the orders of Saint Michel and the Saint Esprit, and in 1816 member of the Academy, He continued his active support of ultra-royalist views until his death, which took place in Paris on the 17th of January 1825 . Besides a large number of political pamphlets, Ferrand is the author of L'Esprit de l'histoire, ou Lettres d'un Pere a son fits sur la maniere d'itudier l'histoire (4 vols., 1802), which reached seven editions, the last number in 1826 having prefixed to it a biographical sketch of the author by his nephew Hericart de Thury; Eloge historique de Madame Elisabeth de France (1814); tEuvres dramatiques (1817); Theorie des revolutions rapprochee des evenements qui en ont ete l'origine, le developpement, ou la suite (4 vols., 1817) ; and Histoire des trots demembrements de to Pologne, pour faire suite a t'Histoire de l'anarchie de Pologne par Rulhiere (3 vols., 1820) .