Claude Antoine Gabriel, duc de Choiseul-Stainville
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Claude Antoine Gabriel, duc de Choiseul-Stainville (1760-1838) was a French soldier and émigré royalist.
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He was brought up at Chanteloup, under the care of his relative, Etienne Francois, duc de Choiseul, who was childless.
The outbreak of the French Revolution found him a colonel of dragoons, and throughout those troublous times he was distinguished for his devotion to the royal house. He took part in the attempt of Louis XVI to escape from Paris on 20 June 1791, was arrested with the king, and imprisoned. Liberated in May 1792, he emigrated in October, and fought in the "army of Condé" against the republic. Captured in 1795, he was confined at Dunkirk, escaped, set sail for India, was wrecked on the French coast, and condemned to death by the decree of the Directory. Nevertheless, he was fortunate enough to escape once more.
Napoleon I allowed him to return to France in 1801, but he remained in private life until the fall of the First French Empire. At the Bourbon Restoration he was called to the new Chambre des pairs (House of Peers) by king Louis XVIII. At the revolution of 1830 he was nominated a member of the provisional government. He afterwards received from Louis Philippe the post of aide-de-camp to the king and governor of the Louvre palace. He died in Paris on December 1, 1838.
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- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain. [1]
