Pierre-Marc-Gaston de 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 became a member of the Académie française in 1816 .

Life

Lévis, son of the officer François-Gaston de Lévis , succeeded his father as Duc de Lévis in 1787 after the death of his father and as such in 1789, first as a representative of the nobility, was a member of the Estates General and, on July 9, 1789, the Constituent Assembly , the constituent national assembly. Due to the persecution of the nobility in the course of the French Revolution , he fled France in 1792 and lived in England until his return in the coup d'état of 18th Brumaire VIII on November 9th, 1799 by Napoléon Bonaparte . He later became peer of France and published numerous books and non-fiction books on economics and politics.

In 1816 he became a member of the Académie française as the successor to the excluded Pierre-Louis Roederer , where he took the sixth armchair (Fauteuil 6). In 1820 he was awarded the Order of the Holy Spirit .

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SURNAME	Lévis, Pierre-Marc-Gaston de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Lévis, Pierre-Marc-Gaston de, Duc de Lévis (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French politician and writer
DATE OF BIRTH	March 7, 1764
PLACE OF BIRTH	Paris
DATE OF DEATH	February 15, 1830