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See also: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Catherine made repeated efforts to secure the destruction of the MS., which remained unpublished until after the empress's See also:death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:
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
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See also: 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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