André Boniface Louis de Riquetti, vicomte de Mirabeau

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André Boniface Louis de Riquetti (30 November 1754-15 September 1792), vicomte de Mirabeau, also known as Barrel Mirabeau (Mirabeau-Tonneau) because of his voluminous taste for drink, was a French soldier and a younger brother of the famous orator Honoré Mirabeau. He served as a colonel, commanding a regiment under the comte de Rochambeau in the American Revolution. Unlike his brother, he opposed the French Revolution and in 1790 left France to join the royalist counter-revolutionary forces in Germany. He was not very successful in his efforts to form a regiment from French exiles and deserters, and died of a stroke in Freiburg two years later. He once famous wrote that 'Other states possess an army; Prussia is an army which possesses a state'.

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[Kurzbiogramm Mirabeau-Tonneau] - Biography of "Barrel Mirabeau" in German

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