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L'Émigré

Gabriel Sénac de Meilhan

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Published2010
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Gabriel Sénac de Meilhan

Gabriel Sénac de Meilhan

Gabriel Sénac de Meilhan was a French writer. He witnessed the beginning of the French Revolution in Paris, but soon emigrated in 1790 to London and then to Aachen. He wrote a novel, L'Émigré, in 1793. In 1792 he was invited by Catherine II of Russia to become the imperial historiographer, but Catherine was displeased by his manners and dismissed him.

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