RULHIERE (or RumilkRES), CLAUDE CARLOMAN DE (17351791)

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RULHIERE (or RumilkRES), CLAUDE CARLOMAN DE (17351791) , French poet and historian, was born at Bondy, near Paris, on the 12th of June 1735. He became aide-de-camp to

Marshal

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

Richelieu, whom he followed through the Hanoverian campaign of 1757 and to his government at Bordeaux in 1758; and at twenty-five he was sent to St

Petersburg

PETERSBURG

as secretary of legation. Here he actually saw the revolution which seated
Catherine II. on the throne, and thus obtained the facts of Anecdotes sur la revolution de Russie en 1762. Catherine made repeated efforts to secure the destruction of the MS., which remained unpublished until after the empress's death. Rulhiere became secretary to the comte de

Provence

PROVENCE (Provincia, Proenza)

(afterwards Louis XVIII.) in 1773, and he was admitted to the

Academy

ACADEMY, GREEK
ACADEMY, ROYAL

in 1787. The later years of his life were spent chiefly in Paris, where he held an appointment in the Foreign Office and went much into society; but he visited Germany and Poland in 1776. His unfinished Histoire de l'anarchie de Pologne (4 vols., 1807) was published posthumously under the editorship of P. C. F. Daunou. The only important historical

work

WORK

which he published during his lifetime was his Eclaircissements historiques sur les causes de la revocation de l'edit de Nantes . . (2 vols., 1788), undertaken in view of the restoration to the Protestants of their civil rights. Rulhiere died at Bondy on the 3oth of January 1791.
His short sketch of the Russian revolution is justly ranked among the masterpieces of the kind in French. Of the larger Poland Carlyle, as justly, complains that its allowance of fact is too small in proportion. to its bulk. The author was also a fertile writer of vers de societe, short satires, epigrams, &c., and he had a considerable reputation among the witty and ill-natured group also containing Nicolas Chamfort,

Antoine

ANTOINE, ANDRE (1858- )

de Rivarol, Louis Rene de Champcenetz, &c. On the other hand he has the credit of caring for J. J. Rousseau in his morose old age, until Rousseau as usual quarrelled with him.
Rulhiere's works were edited, with a notice by P. R. Anguis, in 1819 (Paris, 6 vols. 8vo). The Russian Revolution may be found in the Chefs-d'wuvre historiques of the Collection Didot, and the Poland, with title altered to Revolutions de Pologne, in the same collection. See also a notice by

Eugene

EUGENE

Asse prefixed to an edition 189o) of Rulhiere's Anecdotes sur le Marechal de Richelieu; Sainte-Beuve, Causeries du lundi (vol. iv.).

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