FERRAND, ANTOINE FRANCOIS CLAUDE, COMTE

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FERRAND, ANTOINE FRANCOIS CLAUDE, COMTE 0751-1825), French statesman and political writer, was born in Paris on the 4th of July 1751, and became a member of the parlement of Paris at eighteen. He left France with the first party of emigrants, and attached himself to the prince of

Conde

; later he was a member of the

council

COUNCIL (Lat. concilium, from cum, together, and the root cal, to call)

of regency formed by the cemte de

Provence

PROVENCE (Provincia, Proenza)

after the death of Louis XVI. He lived at Regensburg until 1801, when he returned to France, though he still sought to serve the royalist cause. In 1814 Ferrand was made minister of state and postmaster-general. He countersigned the act of sequestration of

Napoleon

NAPOLEON

's property, and introduced a

bill

BILL

for the restoration of the property of the emigrants, establishing a distinction, since become famous, between royalists of la ligne droite and those of la ligne courbe. At the second restoration Ferrand was again for a short time postmaster-general. He was also made a peer of France, member of the privy

council

COUNCIL (Lat. concilium, from cum, together, and the root cal, to call)

, grand-officer and secretary of the orders of Saint Michel and the Saint Esprit, and in 1816 member of the

Academy

ACADEMY,
GREEK
- GREEK
- GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND
ACADEMY, ROYAL

, He continued his active support of ultra-royalist views until his death, which took place in Paris on the 17th of January 1825.
Besides a large number of political pamphlets, Ferrand is the author of L'Esprit de l'histoire, ou Lettres d'un Pere a son fits sur la maniere d'itudier l'histoire (4 vols., 1802), which reached seven editions, the last number in 1826 having prefixed to it a biographical sketch of the author by his nephew Hericart de Thury; Eloge historique de Madame Elisabeth de France (1814); tEuvres dramatiques (1817); Theorie des revolutions rapprochee des evenements qui en ont ete l'origine, le developpement, ou la suite (4 vols., 1817) ; and Histoire des trots demembrements de to Pologne, pour faire suite a t'Histoire de l'anarchie de Pologne par Rulhiere (3 vols., 1820).

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