André Boniface Louis Riqueti de Mirabeau

André Boniface Louis Riquetti, vicomte de Mirabeau (* November 30, 1754 in Paris, † September 15, 1792 in Freiburg im Breisgau) was the beginning of the French Revolution, one of its conservative opponents.

He was the son of Victor Riquetti and the younger brother of Gabriel de Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau. Because of his dissolute life he was nicknamed Mirabeau - Tonneau ( " Mirabeau barrel "). During the American Revolution he commanded as colonel of a regiment under Rochambeau and 1781 witnessed the Battle of Yorktown.

Back in Paris, he was a member of the Masonic Lodge " Social Contract ". After the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1790, he left France to join the royalist counter-revolutionary forces in Germany. He died in September 1792 in Freiburg im Breisgau from a stroke and was buried at the local cemetery. After its cancellation in 1828 his remains were moved to the present old cemetery.