Pierre Marc Gaston de Lévis, Duke of Lévis

Pierre -Marc- Gaston de Lévis, Duc de Lévis ( born March 7, 1764 in Paris, † February 15, 1830 ) was a French politician and writer, who was a member of the Académie française in 1816.

Life

Lévis, son of the officer François- Gaston de Lévis, was built in 1787 after the death of his father succeeded him as Duc de Lévis and as such 1789 first as representatives of the nobility Member of the Estates General, and on July 9, 1789, the Constituent Assembly, the National Constituent Assembly. Due to the persecution of the aristocracy during the French Revolution, he fled from France in 1792 and lived until his return to the Coup of 18 Brumaire, November 9, 1799 by Napoleon Bonaparte in England. Later he became a peer of France and has published numerous books and books about business and politics.

In 1816, he was the successor of the excluded Pierre -Louis Roederer member of the Académie française, and took there the sixth chair ( fauteuil 6). In 1820 he was awarded the Order of the Holy Spirit.

Publications

  • Voyage de Kang -Hi, ou nouvelles lettres chinois, 2 volumes, 1808
  • Maximes et Reflexions sur différents sujets, 1808
  • Suite des quatre Fiercadins, 1812
  • L' Angleterre au commencement du XIXe siècle, 1814
  • Souvenirs et portraits, 1814
  • Considérations morales sur les finances, 1816
  • In emprunts, 1818
  • De l' Autorité des chambres sur leurs membres, 1819
  • Considérations sur la situation Financière de la France, 1824
  • La conspiration de 1821 ou les jumeaux de Chevreuse, 2 volumes, 1828
  • Lettre sur la méthode Jacotot, 1829

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  • Member of the Académie française
  • Politicians (France)
  • Peer of France
  • Author
  • Frenchman
  • Born in 1764
  • Died in 1830
  • Man
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