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CHARLES FRANÇOIS, (doo-moo-re-ai',) a French general and statesman, B. 1739, after serving with distinction in the army, and also undergoing an imprisonment in the Bastille on account of his political views, allied himself in 1790 with the leading Girondists, and in 1792 became minister of foreign affairs. In the same year he resigned that office to supersede Lafayette in the chief command of the army, and operated in a campaign against Flanders, in which he was succe ful against the Austrians at Jemappes. After subjugating Belgium, D. entered into an intrigue with the Austrians against the French govt., threw up his command, and retired into exile in England, in which country he D. 1823. [s. 306]