René-Charles-Élisabeth, comte de Ligniville collection 1793-[1797] 1796 Ligniville, René-Charles-Élisabeth, comte de collection

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René-Charles-Élisabeth, comte de Ligniville collection 1793-[1797] 1796 Ligniville, René-Charles-Élisabeth, comte de collection

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This collection is made up of 13 letters that René-Charles-Élisabeth, comte de Ligniville, a French Army officer, wrote in the 1790s. Twelve items are manuscript letters that Ligniville wrote to other officers and military officials during the French Revolution, and one is a published "Exposé."

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Ligniville, René Charles Élisabeth de 1757-1813

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René-Charles-Élisabeth, comte de Ligniville, was born in 1757. In 1776, he became captain of a regiment of dragoons in the French Army, and he later served as aide-de-camp to Jean Baptiste Charles Henri Hector, comte d'Estaing. Ligniville married Marie Camille-Victoire de Cassagne Beaufort de Miramon in 1787. He joined Lafayette's army at Montmédy in 1791, and was arrested in 1793 after Charles François Dumouriez's defection. He was released shortly thereafter, and lived in Germany ...