Auguste-Prosper-François, baron Guerrier de Dumast (26 February 1796, Nancy – 26 January 1883, Nancy) was a figure of French

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and a defender of the city of Nancy (lotharingism). A member of the

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,. he was also a chevalier of the

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and a member of the

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Works

*1820: ''La Maçonnerie''. *1818–1821: ''Discours maçonniques des années''. *1821–1862: ''Un mot sur les langues de l'Orient''. *1832–1835: ''Le pour et le contre sur la résurrection des provinces''. *1866: ''Les Initiatives lorraines''. *1874: ''Couronne poétique de la Lorraine''. *1868: ''Morts comparées de la Pologne et de la Lorraine''. *1850: ''Philosophie de l'histoire de Lorraine''.

References

Sources

* . * Pierre Barral, « L'auguste et chère dynastie vue par Guerrier de Dumast », in (dir.), Eugène Faucher (dir.), (dir.), ''Les Habsbourg et la Lorraine'', actes du colloque du 22-24 mai 1987 organisé par les universités de Nancy-II and Strasbourg-III, Nancy, Presses universitaires de Nancy, coll. ''Diagonales'', 1988, 263 p. (), p.229-236. * Lucien Adam, ''Le baron Guerrier de Dumast'', Nancy, G. Crépin-Leblond, 1883, 60 p.

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''Prosper Guerrier de Dumast dans les « mines de l’Orient''

Preface and translation by Guerrier de Dumast of the ''Appel aux Grecs'' by Koraïs (1821)

''Nancy; histoire et tableau''.
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Guerrier de Dumast, Prosper Members of the Société Asiatique Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur 1796 births Writers from Nancy, France 1883 deaths