André Boniface Louis Riquetti de Mirabeau

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

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

Back in Paris, he was a member of the Masonic lodge “Contrat social”. When the French Revolution broke out, there was a skirmish between the Régiment de Touraine , which he commanded, and the revolutionary Régiment de Vermandois . He then left France in 1790 to join the counterrevolutionary forces loyal to the king in the army of emigrants in Germany. He died of a stroke in Freiburg im Breisgau in September 1792 and was buried in the military cemetery there. After its abolition in 1828, his bones were reburied in today's Old Cemetery .

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SURNAME Mirabeau, André Boniface Louis Riquetti de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mirabeau, André Boniface Louis Riquetti, vicomte de (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Conservative opponent of the French Revolution
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1754
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH September 15, 1792
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau