CUSTINE, ADAM PHILIPPE, COMTE DE

ädäNˈ fēlēpˈ kôNt də küstēnˈ, 1740–93, French general. He served in the Seven Years War and in the American Revolution. Elected to the States-General (1789), he served in the French Revolutionary Wars and in 1792 took Frankfurt and Mainz. His failure in the campaign of 1793 led to accusations of treason, and he was guillotined.

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Victims, Authority, and Terror: The Parallel Deaths of d'orlaeans, Custine, Bailly, and Malesherbes
Book by George Armstrong Kelly; University of North Carolina Press, 1982
Subjects: Bailly, Jean Sylvain--1736-1793, Custine, Adam Philippe--comte de--1740-1793, France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Biography, France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Causes, Malesherbes, Chretien Guillaume de Lamoignon de--1721-1794, Orleans, Louis Philippe Joseph--duc d'--1747-1793
...duc d, 1747-1793. 3. Custine, Adam Philippe, comte de, 1740-1793. 4. Bailly...III. Adam-Philippe, Comte de Custine...A Public Biography of Adam-Philippe de Custine, Studies on Voltaire...
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Adrienne: The Life of the Marquise de la Fayette
Book by André Maurois; McGraw-Hill, 1961
Subjects: Lafayette, Marie Adrienne De Noailles--Marquise De--1759-1807
...during the regency of Philippe dOrleans, had made...Somewhat later the Duc de Noailles had done his...for his grandson, the Comte dAyen. She was his...dHunolstein nee de Puget de Barbantane . Her husband, Comte Philippe- Antone dHunolstein...
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A Memoir of Honore de Balzac
Book by Katharine Prescott Wormeley; Roberts Brothers, 1892
Subjects: Balzac, Honorae De--1799-1850
...Physiologie du mariage . He goes to Isle-Adam to stay with his friend, Monsieur de Villers. There he attends the funeral...instituted in Italy in 1575 by Saint Philippe de Neri, and brought to France by Cardinal de Berulle in 1611. The object of...
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The Lady of the Holy Alliance: The Life of Julie de Kreudener
Book by Ernest John Knapton; Columbia University Press, 1939
Subjects: Holy Alliance, Kreudener, Barbara Juliane--Freifrau Von--1764-1824
...Devant la statue de Lezay-Marneia", Revue de Paris , 26 me annie, No. 5 1919 , 98-112; Spach, Adrien, comte de Lezay-Marnesia . For Gaudot see Godet, "Un Neuchatelois chez Mme de Stael", Musee neuchdtelois , XXVI 1889...
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Leftism Revisited: From de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot
Book by Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn; Regnery Gateway, 1990
Subjects: Conservatism--History, Democracy--History, Liberalism--History, Political Science--History
...connection with the ideas of the monk Joachim de Floris, such as his pantheistic chiliasm...sermons were frequently on the theme, "When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman...Geneva and, last but not least, the Marquis de Sade, the grandfather of modern democracy...
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Custine, Adam Philippe, Comte De
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CUSTINE, ADAM PHILIPPE, COMTE DE adaN felep koNt d kusten , 1740 93, French general. He served in the Seven Years War and in the American Revolution. Elected...


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