Foy

(fwaw,) MAXIM I LIEN SEBASTIEN, a French general, B. in Picardie, 1775. Entering the army at an early age, he served with distinction in the campaigns on the Rhine and in the Peninsula, attaining the rank of general of division. He closed his military career on the field of Waterloo, where he was wounded. In 1819 he entered the Chamber of Deputies, where he speedily rose to the first rank as an orator, and as a friend to constitutional reform. D. 1825. [s. 380]