See also:

• COUNT (Lat. comes, gen. comitis, Fr. comte, Ital. conte, Span. conde)

COUNT See also:

• VITTORIO

VITTORIO See also:

• COUNT VITTORIO FOSSOMBRONI (1g54-1844)

FOSSOMBRONI (1g54-1844)  , Tuscan statesman and mathematician, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• AREZZO (anc. Arretium)

Arezzo . He was educated at the university of See also:

• PISA
• PISA, COUNCIL OF (1409)

Pisa, where he devoted himself particularly to See also:

• MATHEMATICS (Gr. /saBnµar1Kil, Sc. vOcvn or E7rlQTt'µn; from p iN.La, "learning" or "science ")

mathematics . He obtained an See also:

• OFFICIAL (Late Lat. QJicialis, for class. Lat. apparitor, from officium, office, duty)

official See also:

• APPOINTMENT, POWER OF

appointment in See also:

• TUSCANY
• TUSCANY (Toscana)

Tuscany in 1782, and twelve years later was entrusted by the See also:

• GRAND

grand See also:

• DUKE (corresponding to Fr. duc, Ital. duca, Ger. Herzog)

duke with the direction of the See also:

• WORKS

works for the drainage of the Val di See also:

• CHIANA (anc. Clanis)

Chiana, on which subject he had published a See also:

• TREATISE

treatise in 1789 . In 1796 he was made See also:

• MINISTER (Lat. minister, servant)

minister for See also:

• FOREIGN

foreign affairs, but on the See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French occupation of Tuscany in 1799 he fled to See also:

• SICILY (Ital. Sicilia)

Sicily . On the erection of the grand duchy into the ephemeral See also:

• KINGDOM

kingdom of See also:

• ETRURIA

Etruria, under the See also:

• QUEEN
• QUEEN (O.E. cwen, wife, related to "quean," O.E. cwene, a hussy; cf. Gr. yvvi7: from root gan-, to produce; cf. genus, " kin," &c.)

queen-See also:

• REGENT (from Lat. regere, to rule)

regent Maria Louisa, he was appointed See also:

• PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

president of the See also:

• COMMISSION (from Lat. commissio, committere)

commission of See also:

• FINANCE

finance . In 1809 he went to See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris as one of the senators for Tuscany to pay See also:

• HOMAGE (from homo, through the Low Lat. hominaticum, which occurs in a document of 1035)

homage to See also:

• NAPOLEON

Napoleon . He was made president of the legislative commission on the restoration of the grand duke See also:

• FERDINAND
• FERDINAND (1577-1650)
• FERDINAND (COLOGNE)
• FERDINAND (Span. Fernando or Hernando; Ital. Ferdinando or Ferrante; in O. H. Ger. Herinand, i.e. " brave in the host," from O. H. G. Heri, "army," A. S. here, Mod. Ger. Heer, and the Goth. nan]jan, " to dare ")
• FERDINAND, MAXIMILIAN KARL LEOPOLD MARIA

Ferdinand III. in 1814, and subsequently See also:

• PRIME, PRIMER AND PRIMING

prime minister, which position he retained under the grand duke See also:

• LEOPOLD (M.H. Ger. Liupolt; O.H. Ger. Liupald, from hut, Mod. Ger. Leute, " people," and paid, " bold," i.e. " bold for the people ")

Leopold II . His See also:

• ADMINISTRATION (Lat. administrare, to serve)

administration, which was only terminated by his See also:

• DEATH

death, greatly contributed to promote the well-being of the See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country . He was the real See also:

• MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master of Tuscany, and the bases of his See also:

• RULE

rule were equality of all subjects before the See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law, honesty in the administration of See also:

• JUSTICE (Lat. justitia)

justice and See also:

• TOLERATION (from Lat. tolerare, to endure)

toleration of See also:

• OPINION (Lat. opinio, from opinari, to think)

opinion, but he totally neglected the moral improvement of the See also:

• PEOPLE

people . At the See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of seventy-eight he married, and twelve years afterwards died, in 1844 .