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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 566 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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VICOMTE DE

ANDRE BONIFACE LOUIS RIQUETI MIRABEAU (1754-1792)  ,
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brother of the orator Mirabeau, was one of the reactionary leaders at the opening of the French Revolution . Sent to the army in Malta in 1776 he spent
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part of his two years there in prison for insulting a religious procession . During the War of
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American Independence he was in several sea-fights with the
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English, and was at the taking of
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Yorktown in 1781 . In the following
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year he had two narrow escapes from drowning . In 1789, with his debts paid up by his
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father, he was elected by the noblesse of
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Limoges a deputy to the States General . He was a violent Conservative and opposed everything that threatened the old regime . His
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drunkenness produced a corpulency which brought him the
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nickname Mirabeau Tonneau (" Barrel Mirabeau "); but he was not lacking in some of that insight which marked his brother . He shared fully in the eccentric
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family pride; and boasted of his brother's genius even when bitterly opposing him . He emigrated about 1790, and raised a legion which was to bear his name; but his insolence alienated the German princes, and his command was taken from him . He died in August 1792—of apoplexy or from a duel—in
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Freiburg im
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Breisgau . He wrote some verse as well as various
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pamphlets . See Joseph Sarrazin, Mirabeau Tonneau, ein Condottiere aus der Revolutionszeit (
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Leipzig, 1893) ; and La Revolution francaise, vols. xxi. and
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xxiv.;
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Eugene Berger, Le Vicomte de Mirabeau(Mirabeau Tonneau), 7754–1792 (1904) ; and for a list of contemporary pamphlets, &c., M .

Tourneux, Bibliographie de la ville de Paris..., vol. iv . (1906) .

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