VICOMTE DE

ANDRE

See also:

• BONIFACE (Bonifacius)
• BONIFACE, SAINT (680-754)

BONIFACE

See also:

• LOUIS
• LOUIS (804–876)
• LOUIS (893–911)
• LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
• LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian

LOUIS RIQUETI

See also:

• VICOMTE DE ANDRE BONIFACE LOUIS RIQUETI MIRABEAU (1754-1792)
• MIRABEAU, HONORS GABRIEL RIQUETI, COMTE DE (1749-1791)
• MIRABEAU, VICTOR RIQUETI, MARQUIS DE (1715-1789)

MIRABEAU (1754-1792)  , 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 part of his two years there in prison for insulting a religious procession . During the War of American Independence he was in several sea-fights with the English, and was at the taking of Yorktown in 1781 . In the following year he had two narrow escapes from drowning . In 1789, with his debts paid up by his father, he was elected by the noblesse of Limoges a deputy to the States General . He was a violent Conservative and opposed everything that threatened the old regime . His drunkenness produced a corpulency which brought him the 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 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 Freiburg im Breisgau . He wrote some verse as well as various pamphlets . See Joseph Sarrazin, Mirabeau Tonneau, ein Condottiere aus der Revolutionszeit (Leipzig, 1893) ; and La Revolution francaise, vols. xxi. and xxiv.; 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) .