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Antoine Jacques Claude Joseph, comte Boulay de la Meurthe
Antoine Jacques Claude Joseph, comte Boulay de la Meurthe (; 19 February 17614 February 1840), was a French politician and magistrate.
Biography.
Boulay was the son of an agricultural labourer, born at Chamousey (Vosges).
Called to the bar at Nancy in 1783, he presently went to Paris, where he rapidly acquired a reputation as a lawyer and a speaker. He supported the revolutionary cause in Lorraine, and fought at Valmy (1792)
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