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SEMOIS (also spelt SEMOY and SEnzoYS)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 631 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SEMOIS (also spelt SEMOY and SEnzoYS)  , a See also:river of less than 12o m. in length rising near See also:Arlon in See also:Belgium, and flowing into the See also:Meuse near Montherme in See also:France . It is Belgian for about oo m. and See also:French for the See also:remainder, entering France a See also:short distance See also:west of the See also:village of Bohan . It passes through the most picturesque scenery in Belgium and is remarkable for its sinuous course, its length of 120 M. representing only 47 in a straight See also:line . See also:Bouillon is the only See also:town on its See also:banks, and since it is not navigable it has escaped the contamination of manufacturing See also:life; its valley remains an ideal specimen of sylvan scenery and See also:medieval tranquillity . S ' MONVILLE, See also:CHARLES See also:LOUIS HUGUET, See also:MARQUIS DE (1759-1839), French diplomat, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 9th of See also:March 1759, the son of one of the royal secretaries . See also:Minister and See also:envoy extraordinary of France at See also:Genoa in 1790-1791, he was instructed by See also:Dumouriez to go to See also:Turin to detach See also:Victor Amadeo III. of See also:Sardinia from the See also:Austrian See also:alliance, but was not permitted to See also:cross the Sardinian frontier . In 1793 he had started with H . B . See also:Maret (afterwards duc de See also:Bassano) for See also:Italy where they had See also:missions to See also:Florence and See also:Naples respectively, when the two envoys were kidnapped by Austrian orders in the Valtelline . They remained in a Tirolese See also:prison until See also:December 1795, when there was an See also:exchange of prisoners on the See also:release of Madame Royale, daughter of Louis XVI., from the See also:Temple . In 1799 See also:Bonaparte, through whose See also:influence his release had been obtained, sent him to the See also:Hague to consolidate the alliance between France and the Batavian See also:Republic . In this See also:mission he was entirely successful, and he is credited with another See also:diplomatic success in the inception of the Austrian See also:marriage .

He accepted the Restoration and sat on the See also:

commission which See also:drew See also:tin the See also:charter . Semonville, who enjoyed a See also:great measure of Louis XVIII.'s confidence, took no See also:part in the See also:Hundred Days . A See also:frank opponent of the extremist policy of Charles X., he tried to See also:save him in 1830; in See also:company with See also:Antoine d'Argout he visited the Tuileries and persuaded the See also:king to withdraw the ordinances and to summon the See also:Council . He had been made a See also:count of the See also:Empire in 18o8, and marquis in 1819 . He died in Paris on the 11th of See also:August 1839 .

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