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MATHIEU See also:JEAN FELICITE DE See also:MONTMORENCY
See also:MONTMORENCY-See also:LAVAL, Duc DE (1766-1826), See also:French politician, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the loth of See also:July 1766
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He served with his See also:father, the vicomte de Laval, in See also:America, and returned to See also:France imbued with democratic opinions
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Mathieu de Montmorency was See also:governor of See also:Compiegne when he was returned as See also:deputy to the states-See also:general in 1789, where he joined the Third See also:Estate and sat on the See also:left of the See also:Assembly
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He moved the abolition of armorial See also:bearings on the 19th of See also:June 1790
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The See also:dissolution of the Constituent Assembly in See also:September 1791 set him See also:free to join Luckner's See also:army on the frontier See also:early in the next See also:year
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After the revolution of the loth of See also:August he abandoned his revolutionary principles; and he took no See also:part in politics under the See also:empire
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At the Restoration he was promoted marechal de See also:camp, and accompanied See also: See Vetillard, See also:Notice sur la See also:vie de M. le duc Mathieu de Montmorency (Le Mans, 1826), and, for his curious relations with Mme de See also:Stael, P . See also:Gautier, Mathieu de Montmorency et Mme de Stael, d'apres See also:les lettres inedites de M. de Montmorency a Mme See also:Necker de See also:Saussure (1908) . |
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