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2 unusual facts about Pierre Auguste Brahain Ducange


Pierre Auguste Brahain Ducange

He played an important role in the coup d'état of 22 January 1798 in the Batavian Republic, by general Herman Willem Daendels, which brought the radical unitarist faction of Wybo Fijnje and Pieter Vreede to power, and he helped write the Staatsregeling voor het Bataafse Volk of 1798 (the first Dutch Constitution).

It was Delacroix' mission to impose a Constitution following the model of the French Constitution of 1795.



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