REGNAULT DE SAINT JEAN

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REGNAULT DE SAINT JEAN D'ANGELY, MICHEL LOUIS

ETIENNE

ETIENNE, CHARLES GUILLAUME (1778-1845)

, COMTE (1761-1819), French politician, was born at Saint Fargeau (

Yonne

YONNE

) on the 3rd of December 1761. Before the Revolution he was an avocat in Paris and lieutenant of the maritime provostship of Rochefort. In 1789 he was elected deputy to the States General by the Third Estate of the senechaussee of Saint Jean d'Angely. His eloquence made him a prominent figure in the Constituent Assembly, where he boldly attacked Mirabeau, and settled the dispute about the ashes of Voltaire by decreeing that they belonged to the nation. But the moderation shown by the

measures

MEASURES

he proposed at the time of the flight of the king to Varennes, by his refusal to accede to the demands for the king's execution, and by the articles he published in the Journal de Paris and the Ami des patriotes, marked him out for the hostility of the advanced parties. He was arrested after the revolution of the loth of August 1792, but succeeded in escaping, and during the reaction which followed the fall of Robespierre was appointed

administrator

ADMINISTRATOR

of the military hospitals in Paris. His powers of organization brought him to Bonaparte's notice, and he took. part in the coup d'etat of 18 Brumaire, year VIII. (9th of November 1799). Under the Empire he enjoyed the confidence of Bonaparte, and was made councillor of state, president of section in the Council of State,
member of the French

Academy

ACADEMY, GREEK
ACADEMY, ROYAL

, procureur general of the high court, and a

count

COUNT (Lat. comes, gen. comitis, Fr. comte, Ital. conte, Span. conde)

of the Empire. He was dismissed on the first restoration of the Bourbons, but resumed his posts during the Hundred Days, and after Waterloo persuaded the emperor to abdicate. He was exiled by the government of the second Restoration, but subsequently obtained leave to return to France. He died on the day of his return to Paris (11th of

March

1819). Les Souvenirs du Comte

Regnault

de St Jean d'Angely (Paris, 1817) are spurious. His son, AUGUSTE MICHEL

ETIENNE

ETIENNE, CHARLES GUILLAUME (1778-1845)

REGNAULT

DE SAINT JEAN D'ANGELY (17941870), an army officer, was dismissed from the army by the Restoration government, fought for the Greeks in the Greek War of Independence, and rejoined the French army in 1830. In 1848 he was elected deputy and sat on the right. Under the Second Empire he went through the Crimean and Italian campaigns, and was made senator and

marshal

MARSHAL (med. Lat. marescalcus, from O.H.Ger. marah, horse, and scalc, servant)

for bravery at the battle of Magenta.

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