François Baron de Tott [SEP] country of citizenship
François Baron de Tott
François Baron de Tott () (August 17, 1733, Chamigny, France – September 24, 1793, Hungary) was an aristocrat and a French military officer of Hungarian origin. Born on August 17, 1733 in Chamigny, a village in northern France, the descendant of a Hungarian nobleman, who had emigrated to the Ottoman Empire and then moved on to France with the cavalry of Count Miklós Bercsényi, and was later raised to the rank of baron.
Career.
As a youngster
paru sous le nom de Baron de Tott", Amsterdam, 1785
- Saman (Edouard), "François de Tott, diplomate et baron de Louis XVI", Marseille, 118, 1979, 84-95
Vissière (I.): " Les Turcs du baron de Tott ", in La Méditerranée au XVIIIe siècle, CAER, Université de Provence, 1987, 251-272 
External links.
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