JEAN VICTOR DE BESENVAL, Baron de Brustach, born in Solothurn, died in Paris on March 11, 1736. 64 years old, being Lieutenant General, of the King's armies, and Colonel of the Swiss Guards Regiment. He had been Envoy, Extraordinary of His Majesty to the King of Sweden Charles XII. Minister Ple, Nipotentiary to the Powers of the North, and the Princes of Lower Germany, during the Interregnum of the Empire, and to King Augustus and the Republic of Poland. We read these words around his Bust, in the Church of St. Sulpice. ORI BY, ANIMUS. He is the father of M. le Baron de Besenval

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