ANTRAIGUES, EMMANUEL HENRI LOUIS ALEXANDRE DE LAUNAY, COMTE

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ANTRAIGUES, EMMANUEL HENRI LOUIS ALEXANDRE DE LAUNAY, COMTE D' (c. 1755-1812), French publicist and political adventurer, was a nephew of Francois

Emmanuel

EMMANUEL, or IMMANUEL

de Saint-Priest (1735-1821), one of the last ministers of Louis XVI. He was a cavalry captain, but, having little

taste

TASTE (from Lat. taxare, to touch sharply; tangere, to touch)

for the army, left it and travelled extensively, especially in the

East

EAST
EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

. On his return to Paris, he sought the society of philosophers and artists, visited Voltaire at Ferney for three months, but was more attracted by J. J. Rousseau, with whom he became somewhat intimate. He published a Memoire sur les etats-generaux, sup-ported the Revolution enthusiastically when it broke out, was elected

deputy

DEPUTY (through the Fr. from a Late Lat. use of deputare, to cut off, allot; putare having the original sense of to trim, prune)

, and took the oath to the constitution; but he suddenly changed his mind completely, became a defender of the monarchy and emigrated in 1990. He was the

secret

SECRET (Lat. secretum, hidden, concealed)

agent of the comte de

Provence

PROVENCE (Provincia, Proenza)

(Louis XVIII.) at different courts of Europe, and at the same time received money from the courts he visited. He published a number of pamphlets,
Des monstres ravagent partout, Point d'accommodement, &c.
At Venice, where he was attache to the Russian legation, he was arrested in 1797, but escaped to Russia. Sent as Russian attache to Dresden, he published a violent pamphlet against

Napoleon

NAPOLEON

I., and was expelled by the Saxon government. He then went to London, and it was universally believed that he betrayed the

secret

SECRET (Lat. secretum, hidden, concealed)

articles of the treaty of Tilsit to the British cabinet, but his

recent

RECENT

biographer, Pingaud, contests this. In 1812 he and his wife Madame Saint-Huberty, an operatic

singer

SINGER, SIMEON (1846-1906)

, were assassinated by an Italian servant whom they had dismissed. It has never been known whether the murder was committed from private or political motives.
See H. Vaschalde, Notice bibliographique sur Louis Alexandre de Launay, comte d'Antraigues, sa vie et ses oeuvres; Leonce Pingaud, Un Agent secret sous la revolution et 1'empire, le comte d'Antraigues (Paris, 1893) ; Edouard de Goncourt, La Saint-Huberty et l'opera au X VIII siecle.
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