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Louis Pierre Édouard, Baron Bignon
Louis Pierre Édouard, Baron Bignon (3 January 1771 in La Mailleraye-sur-Seine – 6 January 1841) was a French diplomat and historian.
Biography.
Louis de Bignon was born at La Mailleraye-sur-Seine, Seine-Maritime, the son of a dyer. Although he had received a good education, he served throughout the early part of the French Revolutionary Wars without rising above the rank of private. In 1797, however, the attention of Talleyrand,
1771 in France
Events from the year 1771 in France
Incumbents.
- Monarch – Louis XV
Births.
- 3 January – Louis Pierre Édouard, Baron Bignon, diplomat and historian (died 1841).
- 19 June – Joseph Diaz Gergonne, mathematician and logician (died 1859)
- 18 August – Louis-François Bertin de Vaux, journalist (died 1842)
Deaths.
- 20 February – Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, geophysicist, astronomer and chronobiologist (born 1678)