[39] Pierre Antoine Noël Brunot, Comte Daru (1760-1829), a moderate revolutionary, had been imprisoned under the Terror. He was sent to Berlin as Minister Plenipotentiary in 1806 and entered the Institute in the same year. In 1811, he became Secretary of State, in which capacity he opposed the Russian War. He was created a peer by the Restoration. His works include a metrical translation of the Works of Horace (1804), a History of the Republic of Venice (1819), a History of Brittany (1826), etc.--T. [40] Charles Pineau Duclos (1704-1772), author of the _Considération des mœurs_, etc., was a native of Dinan, in Brittany, and was noted for the independence of his opinions. Louis XV. pronounced the _Considération_ to be "the work of an honest man."--T. [41] Stanislas Chevalier de Boufflers (1737-1815) became a member of the Academy in 1788, on his return from the Governorship of Senegal. He is best known for his light erotic verse.--T. [42] The Marquise de Boufflers, _née_ de Beauvais-Craon, a beautiful and witty woman who had done the honours of the Court of King Stanislaus.--T. [43] Joseph Marie Duc de Boufflers (1706-1747) relieved Genoa, besieged by the Imperial forces and by the King of Sardinia, in 1747, and died there in the same year of the small-pox.--T. [44] Louis François Maréchal Duc de Boufflers (1644-1711), a pupil of Condé and the Turennes, became famous through his defense of Lille in 1708, for which service he was created a duke and a peer. He also conducted the retreat and saved the French Army after the defeat of Malplaquet in 1709.--T. [45] Louis de Boufflers (1534-1553), a guidon to the Duc d'Enghien, and noted for his superhuman feats of strength and agility. He was killed, at the age of nineteen, at the siege of Pont-sur-Yonne.--T. [46] The Abbé Delille.--B. [47] "Be reassured, immortality's yours:" a line from Delille's _Dithyrambe sur l'immortalité de l'âme_, written during the Terror.--T. [48] M. de Fontanes.--B. [49] M. Suard.--B. [50] The Abbé Morellet, who, in 1795, had published two eloquent appeals in favour of the victims of the Revolution, the _Cri des familles_ and the _Cause des pères._--B. [51] Lieutenant-General Louis Philippe Comte de Ségur (1753-1830), a very intelligent writer. After going through the American War with Lafayette, he was sent as Ambassador to Russia, while still a very young man, returned to France on the outbreak of the Revolution, lived on his pen and was admitted to the Academy. Napoleon made him his Grand-Master of Ceremonies and a senator; under the Restoration, he was created a peer of France.--T. [52] Philippe Henri Maréchal Marquis de Ségur (1724-1801) was badly wounded at the battle of Klosterkamp, in 1760.-T. [53] Philippe Paul Comte de Ségur, author of the _Campagne de Russie_, was riddled with bullets at the Battle of Sommo-Sierra (1808), and refused to cease fighting until he swooned in the arms of his grenadiers.--B. [54] The Abbé Sicard.--B.