Martial Borye Desrenaudes
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 Martial Borye Desrenaudes (1755–1825) was a French
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 politician during the First Republic
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, under which he served as a Tribune for the year IX
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 (1801). He was a close associate of Talleyrand, and went on to fill many positions in diplomacy and public service during the First Empire
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 and after the Bourbon Restoration
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, and thus mimicking the career of his better known friend.
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