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FranoisRgis de La Bourdonnaye, Comte de La Bretche, was a French national deputy from 1815 to 1830. He sat on the extreme right, and was known for his violent attacks on the governments of the Bourbon Restoration. In 1829 he was briefly Minister of the Interior. In 1830 he was made a peer of France a few months before the July Revolution ended his political career.

FranoisRgis de La Bourdonnaye was born in La Varenne, MaineetLoire, onMarch 1767. He was from a noble Breton family which participated in the crusades, and of which a branch had settled in Anjou a century before. In 1786 he joined the Austrasia infantry regiment as an officer. In the early days of the French Revolution 17891799 he was a member of the promonarchy Chevaliers du poignard who placed themselves at the service of King Louis XVI. He was arrested at the Tuileries onFebruary 1791 by the National Guard, and after a few days of detention was sent back to his regiment at Brianon.

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