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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49156)9/28/2005 7:16:31 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 50167
 
Biography of the Day

Élie, Duc Decazes


French politician Élie, Duc Decazes, born this day in 1780, was an intimate adviser to King Louis XVIII and head of the moderate constitutional monarchists, who favoured the liberalization of censorship and electoral laws.


"Those who have assassinated His Lordship the Duke of Berry are those who have rewarded treason and punished loyalty; those who have bestowed governmental office on the enemies of the Bourbons and the hirelings of Bonaparte!"

French ultraloyalists accusing Élie, Duc Decazes, in the assassination of the duc de Berry