Jean-jacques dessalines
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MIOLLIS, Sextius-Alexandre, François, comte de
‘Nos conquêtes sont perdues, mais vous, mon Général, jamais ne vous perdrez les vôstres en Italie, je veux dire l'estime profonde des Mantouans, des Gênois, des Vénitiens, des Toscans, des Romains, et ce qu'il y a peut-être encore de plus remarquable, c'est que vous êtes le seul qui leur ayez inspiré ce sentiment à un aussi haut degré', Commandant Guyon in a letter to Miollis, 10 May, 1821.
Fact file
Born Aix en Provence, 18 September, 1759, died Aix en Provence, 18 June, 1828
Married Rosalie Boutté, Nice, 1798
Seriously wounded fighting under Rochambeau at Yorktown, 1781, during the American War of Independence
Rose from the rank of lieutenant en 2e (1782) to lieutenant colonel en 1e (1792) in the 3e bataillion des volontaires des Bouches-du-Rhône
Appointed General de Brigade in the Armée d'Italie in 1794
Fought in Italy in 1796-97 (distinguishing himself at Finale (1795), Faubourg-St-Georges (1797))
Governor of Mantua, 4 February 1797
Distinguished himself in the Tuscan Campaign, December
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MENUT, ALEXANDRE, innkeeper and politician; b. in France; m. some time before 1777 Marie Deland, and they had at least five children; d. between March 1804 and March 1806.
Alexandre Menut came to Canada after the conquest to work as a cook for Governor Murray*, and Guy Carleton subsequently hired him in the same capacity. On 4 Dec. 1766 he obtained a licence to sell alcoholic beverages. Two years later he opened an inn “at the Sign of the Crown,” on Rue du Parloir in Quebec, where the customers were assured of being “served with Exactness, in the best English or French Manner and in the newest Taste . . . at a reasonable Price.” Menut also went to serve “Dinners or Suppers” in private homes. He was granted a licence in 1769 to open a tavern and sell alcoholic beverages.
In 1775 Menut owned an inn near the Hôpital Général of Quebec. He was in the Canadian militia at the time of the American invasion [see Richard Montgomery*] but did not take part in the defence of the town. His inn became Benedict Arnold’s headquarters during the siege o
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Alexander Schallenberg
Biography
Alexander Schallenberg is the current Federal Minister for European and International Affairs of the Republic of Austria. Schallenberg studied law at the University of Vienna, the Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas and the College of Europe. In 1997 he joined the diplomatic service of the Republic of Austria. He served as spokesperson to Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik and Michael Spindelegger, and held further functions in the diplomatic service including head of the Strategic Foreign Policy Planning Unit and head of the EU Affairs Section. From 2018 on, he served as head of the EU Coordination Section at the Federal Chancellery. In 2019, he was appointed Foreign Minister in the Austrian Federal Government of Brigitte Bierlein and remained in this function in the next governments. In October 2021 he became Federal Chancellor of the Republic of Austria for 6 weeks before returning to the post of Foreign Minister.
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