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BOUFFLERS, STANISLAS JEAN, CHEVALIER DE (1737-1815)

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 315 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BOS-BRI
BOUFFLERS, STANISLAS JEAN, CHEVALIER DE (1737-1815) , French statesman and man of letters, was born near Nancy on the 31st of May 1738. He was the son of Louis Francois, marquis de
Boufflers
 . His mother, Marie Catherine de Beauveau Craon, was the mistress of Stanislas Leszczynski, and the boy was brought up at the court of Luneville. He spent six months in study for the priesthood at Saint Sulpice, Paris, and during his residence there he put in circulation a story which became extremely popular, Aline, reine de Golconde.
Boufflers
  did not, however, take the vows, as his ambitions were military. He entered the order of the Knights of Malta, so that he might be able to follow the career of arms without sacrificing the revenues of a benefice he had received in Lorraine from King Stanislas. After serving in various campaigns he reached the grade of marechal de camp in 1784, and in the next year was sent to West Africa as
governor
  of
Senegal
 . He proved an excellent administrator, and did what he could to mitigate the horrors of the slave trade; and he interested himself in opening up the material resources of the colony, so that his departure in 1787 was regarded as a real calamity by both colonists and negroes. The Memoires secrets of
Bachaumont
  give the current
opinion
  that Boufflers was sent to
Senegal
  because he was in disgrace at court; but the real reason appears to have been a desire to pay his debts before his
marriage
  with Mme de Sabran, which took place soon after his return to France. Boufflers was admitted to the Academy in 1788, and subsequently became a member of the states-general. During the Revolution he found an asylum with Prince Henry of Prussia at Rheinsberg. At the Restoration he was made
joint
 -librarian of the Bibliotheque Mazarine. His wit and his skill in light verse had won him a great reputation, and he was one of the idols of the Parisian salons. His paradoxical character was described in an epigram attributed to Antoine de Rivarol, " abbe libertin, militaire philosophe, diplomate chansonnier, emigre patriote, republicain courtisan." He died in Paris on the 18th of January 1815.
His Uiuvres completes were published under his own supervision in 1803. A selection of his stories in
prose
  and verse was edited by
Eugene
  Asse in 1878; his Poesies by 0. Uzanne in 1886; and the Correspondance inedite de la comtesse de Sabran et du chevalier de Boufflers (1778-1788), by E. de Magnieu and Henri Prat in 1875.


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