Lives Of Remarkable Characters Who Have Distinguished Themselves From The Commencerit Of The Frenche Revolution To The Present Time 3

Author : Alph de Beauchamp
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780260942449
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book Lives of Remarkable Characters, Vol. 3 Of 3 written by Alph de Beauchamp and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-13 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lives of Remarkable Characters, Vol. 3 of 3: Who Have Distinguished Themselves From the Commencement of the French Revolution, to the Present Time M irabeau (honore gabriel-riquetti, comte de) was born in youthful impetuosity and ungoverned passions made the early part of his life a scene of disorder and misery. After having been some years in the army, and served in Corsica, he married Mademoiselle de Marignane, a rich heiress in the city of Aix, but the union was not fortunate, and his extravagant expenses deranging his affairs, he contracted debts to the amount of livres, in consequence of which his father Obtained from the Chatelet an act of lunacy against him. Enraged at this he went to settle at Manosque, whence he was, on account of a private quarrel, some time afterwards removed; and in 1794 was shut up in the castle of If: he was then conveyed to that of J oux in Franche Comte, and obtained permission to go occasionally to Pontarlier, where he met Sophie de Bufl'ey, mar chioness of Monnier, the wife of a president in the parliament of Besancon. Her wit and beauty ih spired Mirabeau with a most violent passion, and he soon escaped to Holland with her, but was for this outrage condemned to lose his head, and would probably have ended his days far from his countr had not an agent of the police seized him in conveyed him back to France, and carried him to the castle of Vincennes, where he remained till the month of December, 1780, when he recovered his liberty. The first use he made of it was to bring an action at law against his wife, who refused to live with him again: he pleaded his own cause before the parliament of Aix, but lost it, and his wife Oh vol. III. B. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.