Louis-Clair de Beaupoil comte de Saint-Aulaire (9 April 1778, in Baguer-Pican – 13 November 1854, in

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) was a French politician.

Life

After attending school at the

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and polytechnique (from which he graduated in 1794), he served as

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, then prefect of the

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in 1813 and of

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in 1814. He was elected to the

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in 1815, and reelected from the

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in 1841.

Works

*'' Histoire de la Fronde '' (''History of the

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'', 1827) *'' Considération sur la Démocratie '' (''Consideration on Democracy'', 1850) *'' Les derniers Valois, les Guises et Henri IV '' (''The last of the house of Valois, the Guises and Henry IV'', 1854) * Translation of Goethe's ''

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'' (1823)

Sources

Biography
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