biography
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Daru, Pierre Antoine (Noel Mattieu Bruno), comte (Count)
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pronunciation:
[darü]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1767–1829)
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| biography:
| Military administrator and historian, born in Montpellier, S France. He entered the army at 16, was imprisoned during the Terror, but was appointed secretary of the war industry in 1800 and intendant-general in Austria and Prussia. He was minister of war from 1811, and later was ennobled by Louis XVIII. He wrote histories of Venice and of Britain. |
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