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See also:COUNT See also:ANTOINE See also:FRANCAIS (1756-1836) , better known as See also:FRANcAIS OF See also:NANTES, See also:French politician and author, was See also:born at Beaurepaire, in the See also:department of See also:Isere . In 1791 he was elected to the legislative See also:assembly by the department of See also:Loire Inferieure, and was noted for his violent attacks upon the farmers See also:general, the See also:pope and the priests; but he was not re-elected to the See also:Convention . During the Terror, as he had belonged to the Girondin party, he was obliged to seek safety in the mountains . In 1798 he was elected to the See also:council of Five See also:Hundred by the department of Isere, and became one of' its secretaries; and in the following See also:year he voted against the See also:Directory . He took See also:office under the consulate as See also:prefect of See also:Charente Inferieure, See also:rose to be a member of the council of See also:state, and in 1804 obtained the important See also:post of director-general of the indirect taxes (droits reunis) . The value of his services was recognized by the titles of See also:count of the See also:empire and See also:grand officer of the See also:Legion of See also:Honour . - - _~ _ _ = =- _ — riG i r=rz 1 t Li 1 A I author of The See also:Modern See also:Cook (1845), which has since been frequently republished; of a See also:Plain See also:Cookery See also:Book for the Working Classes (1861), and of The Royal See also:English and See also:Foreign See also:Confectionery Book (1862) . Francatelli died at See also:Eastbourne on the loth of See also:August 1876 . |
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