ANDREOSSY, ANTOINE-FRANcOIS, COUNT (I761 1828), French artillery officer and diplomatist, was born March 6 1761. He served in the French Revolutionary wars on the Rhine, in Italy and in Egypt, and took part in the coup d'etat of the i8th Brumaire. During the short peace which fol lowed the treaties of Amiens and Lunavi11e he was ambassador to England, but his repeated warnings to Napoleon that the British Government desired to maintain peace, but must be treated with consideration, were disregarded. Later Napoleon sent Andreossy as ambassador in i8o8 to Vienna and in 1812 to Constantinople. After his recall by Louis XVIII. in 1814 he re tired into private life, and wrote works on military history and scientific memoirs. He died at Montauban in 1828.
See Marion, Notice necrologique sur le Comte Andre ossy.