Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Polish Insurgents, Royalist Insurgents During the French Revolution, Vincent-Marie Vinot, Count of Vaublanc, Charles Armand Tuffin, Marquis de La Rouerie, Chouannerie, Jean-Guillaume, Baron Hyde de Neuville, Rene Bordereau, Georges Cadoudal, Aim Picquet Du Boisguy, Edward Dembowski, Jacques Anne Joseph le Prestre de Vauban, Claude Antoine Gabriel, Duc de Choiseul-Stainville, Victor Franois de Montchenu, Claude-Augustin Tercier, Jean Chouan, Charles Gaspard Elisabeth Joseph de Bailly, Joss Fritz. Excerpt: Vincent-Marie Vinot, Count of Vaublanc (2 March 1756 21 August 1845) was a French royalist politician, writer and artist. He was a deputy for the Seine-et-Marne in the French Legislative Assembly, served as President of the same body, and from 26 September 1815 to 7 May 1816, he was the French Minister of the Interior. His political career had him rubbing shoulders with Louis XVI, Napoleon Bonaparte, the Count of Artois (the future Charles X of France), and finally Louis XVIII. He was banished and recalled four times by different regimes, never arrested, succeeding each time in regaining official favour. In a long and eventful career, he was successively a monarchist deputy during the Revolution and under the Directoire, an exile during the Terror, a deputy under Napoleon, Minister of the Interior to Louis XVIII and eventually, at the end of his political career, a simple ultra-royalist deputy. He is remembered now for the fiery eloquence of his speeches, and for his controversial reorganisation of the Acadmie franaise in 1816 while Minister of the Interior. He strongly favoured the motion for the enfranchisement of the slaves in the French colonies in America. Coat-of-arms of the Vaublanc family.Born and raised at Fort Dauphin, Sain... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=8870598