Alexandre de Beauharnais, Viscount of Beauharnais (1760-1794). French aristocrat, military officer and politician. Elected deputy to the Estates General in 1789, he became a member of the Constituent Assembly in which he supported the abolition of feudal privileges. The Revolutionary Tribunal tried him for treason, sentencing him to the guillotine during the Reign of Terror. Portrait. Drawing by Hippolyte de la Charlerie. Engraving by Pannemaker. "History of the French Revolution". Volume I, 1876.

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