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COMTE DE CASIMIR MONTROND (1768-1843)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 793 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COMTE DE CASIMIR See also:MONTROND (1768-1843)  , See also:French See also:diplomatic See also:agent, was the son of a military officer; his See also:mother, Angelique See also:Marie d'Arlus, comtesse de See also:Montrond (d . 1827), was a royalist writer, said to be the author of the See also:Troubadour bearnois, a See also:song which has the refrain " See also:Louis, le fils de See also:Henri, Est prisonnier dans See also:Paris." Casimir was imprisoned in 1794 in St Lazare, where he met the divorced duchesse de See also:Fleury (nee Franquetot de Coigny), the "jeune See also:captive " of See also:Andre See also:Chenier's famous verses . He bought her freedom and his own with See also:loo louis . They married and crossed to See also:London, but the See also:union proved unhappy, and they were divorced on their return to Paris . Turning to the fashionable See also:world, Casimir de Montrond became famous for his successes . He was the confidant and See also:political agent of Talleyrand, and his inside knowledge of politics enabled him to make a large See also:fortune on the See also:Bourse . In 1809 he was disgraced for some imprudent comments on the imperial See also:system, and exiled from Paris . After spending some See also:time at See also:Antwerp he removed to See also:Spa, where he was on intimate terms with Pauline See also:Borghese, and in 1811 he returned to Antwerp; here he was arrested by See also:Napoleon's orders and sent to the fortress of See also:Ham . After a See also:month's imprisonment he received permission to reside, under See also:police supervision, at See also:Chatillon-sur-See also:Seine, whence he presently escaped to See also:England . He returned to See also:France at the first See also:Bourbon restoration, and during the See also:Hundred Days was entrusted with a See also:mission to See also:Vienna to convert Talleyrand to Napoleon's interests, to see Metternich and See also:Nesselrode, and to bring back if possible Marie See also:Louise and the See also:king of See also:Rome . The second restoration restored him to his social triumphs, though he was always under police supervision, and on Talleyrand's fall he accompanied him to Valencay and continued to help with his intrigues . He followed Talleyrand to London in 1832 .

Montrond returned to Paris some time before his See also:

death in 1843 . See H . Welschinger, " L'Ami de M. de Talleyrand," in the Revue de Paris (Feb . 1895) ; Lanzac de Laborie, La Domination franyaise en Belgique (1895); and Amedee Pichot, Souvenirs sur M. de Talleyrand (187o) .

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