Claude-Carloman de Rulhière

Claude- Carloman de Rulhière ( born June 12, 1735 in Bondy, near Paris, † January 30, 1791 in Bondy ) was a French poet and historian.

Rulhiere accompanied the Marshal de Richelieu as adjutant ("aide de camp" ) during the Seven Years' War in Germany against Hannover and followed him in 1758 to Bordeaux. In 1760 he accompanied the French ambassador, Baron de Breteuil as secretary of legation to Saint Petersburg, where he witnessed the coup by Catherine II in 1762, on which the French secret service was involved ( Tsar Peter was too Prussia - friendly). At the urging of his friends, he wrote a manuscript and let it circulate. Katharina repeatedly demanded its destruction, and Rulhiere could only publish so after her death. These " anecdotes " about the Russian Revolution established his fame and won him ultimately to join the Academy 1787. 1765 he left the army. In 1771 he got a job as a political writer at the Foreign Office. 1773 he is also secretary of the Comte de Provence, the future Louis XVIII .. He was a well known figure in the salons of Paris, where he among other things, wrong with Nicolas Chamfort and Antoine de Rivarol. Up to the almost inevitable in dealing with it, shall he also took care of the old Jean -Jacques Rousseau. After a trip to Germany and Poland in 1776, he began to write a history of Poland, which was published posthumously and unfinished. Thomas Carlyle praises in his biography of Frederick II, although their style, but laments the poor for a historical work statement of facts. In 1788 he also wrote a work on the withdrawal of the Edict of Nantes, at a time when the Protestants should gain more rights again. As a poet, he dabbled in Les jeux de main ( Paris, 1808).

Works

  • Auguis ( Editeur ) Oeuvres, 6 vols 1819
  • Anecdotes sur la revolution de Russie en l' annee 1762 (Paris 1797 and often), Gallimard 2006 ( an English translation appeared in 1797 in London and 1798 in Boston, as a reprint New York 1971)
  • Eclaircissements historiques sur les Causes de revocation de l' edit de Nantes ( Paris 1788, 2 volumes)
  • Histoire de l' anarchy de Pologne et du demembrement de cette republique (edited by Pierre Claude François Daunou, Paris: H. Nicolle et Desenne, 1807, 4 volumes), 4th edition, Paris, 1862, 3 volumes
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