Kirby´s Wonderful and Eccentric Museum, Vol. 4 of 6
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Excerpt from Kirby´s Wonderful and Eccentric Museum, Vol. 4 of 6: Or, Magazine of Remarkable Characters, Including All the Curiosities of Nature and Art, From the Remotest Period to the Present Time Charles Genevieve Louis Auguste André Timothé D´Eon de Beaumont, Doctor of Civil and Canon Law, Advocate of the Parliament of Paris, and Censor-general for Belles Lettres and History in that city, was born at Tonnerre in Burgundy, Oct. 17, 1727, and descended from a respectable family, many branches of which had held situations of trust under the government of France. Having received an education suitable to his rank, and passed through all the gradations of college with considerable credit, he was called to the bar of the Parliament of Paris; and early in life rendered himself conspicuous in the annals of literature by the publication of several pieces of much celebrity. In 1755 he was introduced by the Prince de Conti to Louis XV. and was employed by that monarch on some important missions. The first mission which introduced him to notice in Europe was of a diplomatic nature to the court of Russia, in the year 1756, when he acted as secretary of embassy to the Marquis de l´Hospital, and conducted himself so much to the satisfaction of the empress Elizabeth, that, on leaving Petersburgh the same year, he was presented with five thousand roubles, and a valuable miniature of her imperial majesty. On this occasion, he was charged by the Empress with a packet for Voltaire, containing presents to induce him to soften the character of Peter the Great in his History of Russia, as well as some papers in manuscript. On his arrival at Paris he was immediately commissioned to, communicate the plan of the Russian military operations against the King of Prussia to the court of Vienna, and when he had performed that task was entrusted by the Count de Broglio with dispatches to the court of France, containing an account of the victory obtained over the Prussians, and of the treaty concluded between Russia and France. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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