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COMTE DE AUGUSTE See also: born at See also: Rennes on the 28th of See also: December 1769
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Coming to See also: Paris in 1790, he associated himself with Bernardin de St See also: Pierre
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After being twice imprisoned during the Terror he retired to See also: Brittany, where he devoted him-self to literature till 1814
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In 1818 he returned to Paris as deputy for See also: Finistere, and sat in the Chamber till 1824, becoming one of the recognized liberal leaders
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He was re-elected in 1827, took an active See also: part in the establishment of the See also: July See also: monarchy, was appointed a councillor of See also: state (183o), and in 1837 was made a peer of See also: France
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After the coup d'etat of 1851 he retired from public See also: life
.
Among his publications were Conies et Idylles (1791); Lysus et Cydippe, a poem (18o1); Inductions morales et physiologiques (1817); Documents pour servir d l'histoire de France (182o); Du Beau clans See also: les arts d'imitation (1822); Le Dernier See also: des Beaumanoir (1824)
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His last See also: work, Clarisse (1854), a novel, was written when he was eighty-five
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He died at See also: Port-Marly on the 7th of See also: November 1859
.
His son, comte Emile de Keratry (1832– ), became deputy for Finistere in 1869, and strongly supported the war with See also: Germany in 287o
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He was in Paris during part of the siege, but escaped in a See also: balloon, and joined See also: Gambetta
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In 1871 See also: Thiers appointed him to the prefecture, first of the Haute-See also: Garonne, and subsequently of the Bouches-du-Rhone, but he resigned in the following See also: year
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He is the author of La Contre-guerilla francaise au Mexique (1868) ; L' See also: Elevation et la chute de l'empereur Maximilien (1867); Le Quatre-septembre et le gouvernement de la defense nationale (1872); Mourad V
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(1878), and some volumes of memories
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