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RULHIERE (or RumilkRES), See also:CLAUDE See also:CARLOMAN DE (1735–1791)  , See also:French poet and historian, was See also:born at Bondy, near See also:Paris, on the 12th of See also:June 1735 . He became aide-de-See also:camp to See also:Marshal See also:Richelieu, whom he followed through the Hanoverian See also:campaign of 1757 and to his See also:government at See also:Bordeaux in 1758; and at twenty-five he was sent to St See also:Petersburg as secretary of See also:legation . Here he actually saw the revolution which seated See also:Catherine II. on the See also:throne, and thus obtained the facts of Anecdotes sur la revolution de Russie en 1762 . Catherine made repeated efforts to secure the destruction of the MS., which remained unpublished until after the empress's See also:death . See also:Rulhiere became secretary to the See also:comte de See also:Provence (afterwards See also:Louis XVIII.) in 1773, and he was admitted to the See also:Academy in 1787 . The later years of his See also:life were spent chiefly in Paris, where he held an See also:appointment in the See also:Foreign See also:Office and went much into society; but he visited See also:Germany and See also:Poland in 1776 . His unfinished Histoire de l'anarchie de Pologne (4 vols., 1807) was published posthumously under the editorship of P . C . F . See also:Daunou . The only important See also:historical See also:work which he published during his lifetime was his Eclaircissements historiques sur See also:les causes de la revocation de l'edit de See also:Nantes . . (2 vols., 1788), undertaken in view of the restoration to the Protestants of their See also:civil rights .

Rulhiere died at Bondy on the 3oth of See also:

January 1791 . His See also:short See also:sketch of the See also:Russian revolution is justly ranked among the masterpieces of the See also:kind in French . Of the larger Poland See also:Carlyle, as justly, complains that its See also:allowance of fact is too small in proportion. to its bulk . The author was also a fertile writer of vers de societe, short satires, epigrams, &c., and he had a considerable reputation among the witty and See also:ill-natured See also:group also containing See also:Nicolas See also:Chamfort, See also:Antoine de See also:Rivarol, Louis Rene de Champcenetz, &c . On the other See also:hand he has the See also:credit of caring for J . J . See also:Rousseau in his morose old See also:age, until Rousseau as usual quarrelled with him . Rulhiere's See also:works were edited, with a See also:notice by P . R . Anguis, in 1819 (Paris, 6 vols . 8vo) . The Russian Revolution may be found in the Chefs-d'wuvre historiques of the Collection See also:Didot, and the Poland, with See also:title altered to Revolutions de Pologne, in the same collection .

See also a notice by See also:

Eugene Asse prefixed to an edition 189o) of Rulhiere's Anecdotes sur le Marechal de Richelieu; Sainte-Beuve, Causeries du lundi (vol. iv.) .

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