Claude de Thiard de Bissy
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Claude de Thiard de Bissy (13 October 1721, Paris - 26 September 1810, Pierre-de-Bresse
) was a French soldier. He served his military career, rising to lieutenant-général des armées du roi in 1762 (the same day as his younger brother Henri, comte de Thiard
) and fighting in the conquest of Franche-Comté
and becoming governor of Languedoc
and Auxonne
.
Sylvie Angélique Andrault de Langeron, he was thus a descendent of the poet Pontus de Tyard
. He was elected a member of the Académie française
in 1750 and remained a member for 60 years. He wrote a Histoire d’Ema ou de l’âme (1752).
Pierre-de-Bresse
Pierre-de-Bresse is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne in eastern France.-References:*...
) was a French soldier. He served his military career, rising to lieutenant-général des armées du roi in 1762 (the same day as his younger brother Henri, comte de Thiard
Henri de Thiard de Bissy
Henri Charles Gabriel de Thiard de Bissy, comte de Thiard was a French general and writer. He was the younger brother of Claude de Thiard de Bissy, also a general and a writer. Henri was guillotined on the day Robespierre fell during the French Revolution....
) and fighting in the conquest of Franche-Comté
Franche-Comté
Franche-Comté the former "Free County" of Burgundy, as distinct from the neighbouring Duchy, is an administrative region and a traditional province of eastern France...
and becoming governor of Languedoc
Languedoc
Languedoc is a former province of France, now continued in the modern-day régions of Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyrénées in the south of France, and whose capital city was Toulouse, now in Midi-Pyrénées. It had an area of approximately 42,700 km² .-Geographical Extent:The traditional...
and Auxonne
Auxonne
Auxonne is a commune in the Côte-d'Or department in Bourgogne in eastern France.Auxonne is one of the sites of the defensive structures of Vauban, clearly seen from the train bridge as it enters the Auxonne SNCF train station on the Dijon - Besançon train line. It also was home to the Artillery...
.
Life
The son of Claude, 7th count of Bissy (died 2 July 1723) andSylvie Angélique Andrault de Langeron, he was thus a descendent of the poet Pontus de Tyard
Pontus de Tyard
Pontus de Tyard was a French poet and priest, a member of "La Pléiade".He was born at Bissy-sur-Fley in Burgundy, of which he was seigneur, but the exact year of his birth is uncertain. He became a friend of Antoine Héroet and Maurice Scève...
. He was elected a member of the Académie française
Académie française
L'Académie française , also called the French Academy, is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. The Académie was officially established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, the chief minister to King Louis XIII. Suppressed in 1793 during the French Revolution,...
in 1750 and remained a member for 60 years. He wrote a Histoire d’Ema ou de l’âme (1752).