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Alexis Guignard, comte de Saint-Priest
Alexis Guignard, comte de Saint-Priest (27 April 1805 in Saint Petersburg29 September 1851 in Moscow) was a French diplomat, historian, and Peer of France. He was the eleventh member elected to occupy seat 4 of the Académie française in 1849.
Guignard was the son of an "émigré" French nobleman Armand Charles Emmanuel Guignard, comte de Saint-Priest (1782–1863) and his Russian wife, Princess Sophie Galitzine. His grandfather, François-Emmanuel Guignard,
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