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See also:COMTE DE See also:ALEXANDRE See also:THEODORE See also:VICTOR See also:LAMETH (1760-1829)
, See also:French soldier and politician, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the loth of See also:October 1760
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He served in the See also:American See also:War of See also:Independence under See also:Rochambeau, and in 1789 was sent as See also:deputy to the States See also:General by the nobles of the bailliage of Peronne
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In the Constituent See also:Assembly he formed with See also:Barnave and Adrien See also:Duport a sort of association called the " Triumvirate," which controlled a See also:group of about See also:forty deputies forming the advanced See also:left of the Assembly
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He presented a famous See also:report in the Constituent Assembly on the organization of the See also:army, but is better known by his eloquent speech on the 28th of See also:February 1791, at the Jacobin See also:Club, against See also:Mirabeau, whose relations with the See also:court were beginning to be suspected, and who was a See also:personal enemy of See also:Lameth
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However, after the See also:flight of the See also: Like See also:Alexandre, Charles joined the Bourbons, succeeding Alexandre as deputy in 1829 . See F . A . See also:Aulard, See also:Les Orateurs de l'Assemblee Constituante (Paris, 1905); also M . See also:Tourneux, See also:Bibliog. de l'histoire de Paris (vol. iv., 1906, s.v . " Lameth ") . |
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