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Beauharnais (FRANCOIS MARQUIS DE elder)

FRANCOIS, MARQUIS DE, elder brother of the preceding, born in 1756. He was a Major-General in the French army, protested against revolu tionary excesses in a letter to the President of the National Assembly, and, on Bonaparte becoming First Consul, recommended him to restore the scepter to the House of Bourbon. He was afterward Ambassador to Spain, but fell into disgrace with Napoleon, and was banished. He returned to Paris after the Restoration, and died March 4, 1846.