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    Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

    French writer, orator and statesman

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  1. Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, aussi orthographié Riquetti, « comte » de Mirabeau, plus communément appelé Mirabeau, né le 9 mars 1749 à Bignon-Mirabeau et mort le 2 avril 1791 à Paris, est un écrivain, diplomate, journaliste et homme politique français, figure de la Révolution.

  2. Honoré-Gabriel Riqueti, count de Mirabeau, orig. Honoré-Gabriel Riqueti, (born March 9, 1749, Bignon, near Nemours, France—died April 2, 1791, Paris), French politician and orator. Son of the economist Victor Riqueti (1715–89), he suffered his father’s disfavour; often imprisoned for intrigues and wild behaviour (1774–80), he wrote ...

  3. Honoré-Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau - French Revolution, Intrigue, Statesman: From November 1789, notwithstanding his oratorical triumphs of January–April 1790 in the cause of the Revolution, Mirabeau was a prey to despondency and aimlessness until his friend Auguste, prince d’Arenberg, comte de La Marck—with the approval of ...

  4. Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, was the son of Victor. Honoré-Gabriel Mirabeau was born at Le Bignon, near Nemours, the eldest surviving son of Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, who was a prominent French economist and member of the Physiocratic school, and his wife Marie-Geneviève de Vassan. He was the couple's fifth child ...

  5. Issu de la noblesse, il se présente à la députation en 1789 grâce à un subterfuge. Charismatique, il est dès ses débuts une figure importante de l'Assemblée. Partisant d'une monarchie constitutionnelle, il contribue activement à la vie politique mais réclame que le Roi reste aux commandes de l'armée.

  6. Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Count of Mirabeau ( French pronunciation: [ miʁabo]; 9 March 1749 – 2 April 1791) was a French writer, orator, statesman and a prominent figure of the early stages of the French Revolution.

  7. Mirabeau and The French Revolution: A Reappraisal David M. Epstein* Honore Gabriel de Riqueti, Comte de Mirabeau, and his role in the French Revolution have received much attention in the polemical interpretations of that revo lutionary era. Varied analyses have arisen in large part from his kaleidoscopic career during which he spent several years