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See also:BARON See also:PIERRE See also:VICTOR See also:MALOUET (1740-1814)
, See also:French publicist and politician, was See also:born at See also:Riom (See also:Puy-de-See also:Dome) on the 11th of See also:February 1740, the son of a lawyer
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He entered the See also:civil service and was employed successively at the French See also:embassy in See also:Lisbon, in the administrative See also:department of the duc de See also:Broglie's See also:army, as See also:commissary in See also:San Domingo from 1767-1774, and, after his return to See also:France, as commissary-See also:general of the marine
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In 1776 he was entrusted to carry out plans of colonization in French See also:Guiana, but was superseded in 1779
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On his return to France he was well received at See also:court, and the See also:execution of his plans in Guiana was assured
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He became See also:intendant of the See also:port of See also:Toulon, and in 1789 was returned to the states-general, where he soon became well known as a defender of the monarchical principle
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He emigrated to See also:England in See also:September, 1792, but shortly afterwards sought in vain permission to return to assist in the See also:defence of See also: |
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