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BUILDING FRANCE IN AMERICA

Return and Ruination

&#;We must now stop hoping for any kind of settlement in America: with each day that casts new light upon this continent and each man we encounter, we feel how unbearable it would be for honest and right-feeling Frenchmen, accustomed to a peaceful life, to settle here&#;. Albert de Lezay-Marn&#;sia penned this bitter account in while waiting to leave Philadelphia and embark upon the return voyage to France alongside his father, the marquis Claude-Fran&#;ois-Adrien de Lezay-Marn&#;sia. Two years earlier, father and son had crossed the Atlantic in order to found a colony on the banks of a tributary of the Ohio that was intended as a refuge for those of their countrymen who were hostile to the Revolution. By early the situation had become dire. Quarrelsome by temperament, the marquis de Lezay-Marn&#;sia had alienated his former associates and, having dissipated the lion&#;s share of his once-considerable fortune purchasing land he was never to set eyes upon, found himself penniless and faced with debtors&#; prison. He would narrowly avoid spending time in a cell in a Philadephia jail thanks to his son obtaining desperately-needed financial aid from a distant acquaintance. News of the death of the marquis&#; eldest daughter, Adrienne de Beauharnais, was a further blow, hardening his resolve to return home. In May , Lezay-Marn&#;sia and his son would return to France having failed to remake their homeland on the banks of the Scioto.

And yet their colonial enterprise had begun with great promise. Casting himself in the role of a latter-day patriarch, the marquis de Lezay-Marn&#;sia had visions of the Northwest Territory as the promised land to which he would valiantly lead a virtuous people: &#;The eyewitness accounts all converge, the stories all agree, and all assure us that the promised land is the one we are about to inhabit&#;, he had declared in the winter of In a s

French author of maxims and memoirs (–)

François de La Rochefoucauld, 2nd Duke of La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac (; French:[fʁɑ̃swad(ə)laʁɔʃfuko]; 15 September &#;– 17 March ) was an accomplished French moralist of the era of French Classical literature and author of Maximes and Memoirs, the only two works of his dense literary œuvre published. His Maximes portrays the callous nature of human conduct, with a cynical attitude towards putative virtue and avowals of affection, friendship, love, and loyalty. Leonard Tancock regards Maximes as "one of the most deeply felt, most intensely lived texts in French literature", with his "experience, his likes and dislikes, sufferings and petty spites crystallized into absolute truths."

Born in Paris in , at a time when the royal court was vacillating between aiding the nobility and threatening it, he was considered an exemplar of the accomplished seventeenth-century nobleman. Until , he bore the title of Prince de Marcillac. His great-grandfather François III, count de La Rochefoucauld, was killed in the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, being a Huguenot.

Early life: –

François de La Rochefoucauld was born on September 15, , at Rue des Petits Champs, in Paris's 1st arrondissement neighborhood. La Rochefoucauld was given the education of a nobleman of his era, which concentrated on military exercises, hunting, court etiquette, elegance of expression and comportment, and a knowledge of the world. He was married at the age of fourteen to Andrée de Vivonne. Belonging to one of the most illustrious families of the French nobility, the young La Rochefoucauld, then prince of Marcillac, succeeded at the age of 16 (1 May ) to his uncle Benjamin de La Rochefoucauld, count of Estissac, as camp master of the Estissac regiment.

Military career

He joined the army the following year and almost immediately est

Belgian actor and martial artist (born )

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In this Dutch name, the surname is Van Damme, not Damme.

Jean-Claude Camille François Van Varenberg (French:[ʒɑ̃klodkamijfʁɑ̃swavɑ̃vaʁɑ̃bɛʁɡ], Flemish:[vɑɱˈvaːrə(m)bɛr(ə)x]; born 18 October ), known professionally as Jean-Claude Van Damme (French:[vɑ̃dam], Flemish:[vɑnˈdɑmə]), is a Belgian martial artist and actor. Born and raised in Brussels, his father enrolled him in a Shotokan karate school at the age of ten, which led Van Damme to hold the rank of 2nd-danblack belt in karate, and compete in several karate and kickboxing competitions. As a teenager, he won the middleweight championship of the Europe