ARMAND, CirAnr.Es, Marquis DE LA ROUARIE, 1756-93; a French soldierfivho left France in consequence of fighting a -duel about an actress, and volunteered in the Amer. scan army, receiving the rank of colonel. He fought at Red Bank, also at Camden, under Gates, whose conduct lie severely censured. He was at Yorktown, and was made briga dier-general in 1783. Returning to France, lie was in the revolution, and was imprisoned in the bastile; but was afterwards a royalist leader in Brittany and Anjou. He d. soon after the execution of Louis XVI., it is said from nervous disease occasioned by the shock of that event.
ARMANSPERG„Jos. Lrnw., Count of, formerly president of the government in Greece, was b. in lower Bavaria, 1787, and early embraced an administrative and diplo matic career. On the accession of king Louis. to the throne, A., 'who bad already occu pied several important posts, was summoned to Munich, where, rapidly rising from one dignity to another, he at length became minister of finance and of foreign affairs. In
both capacities he proved active and successful; but he drew upon himself the hatred of the camarilla by his strenuous opposition to the claims of Rome, as well as by his attempts to identify himself with the decidedly liberal party. The consequence was that, in 1831, he lost his post, and in the same year was appointed ambassador to Lon don, but preferred retiring to his family estate. However, he could not resist the king's repeated request that he would undertake the formation of his son's government in Greece, and accordingly, accompanying young king Otho, A. landed at Nauplia in Jan., 1833. For four years he was at the head of public affairs, and Greece derived many benefits from his administration; but the heat of party strife and court intrigues led to his dismissal, and he left Greece in Mar., 1S37. After that time he lived in retirement upon his property, near Deggendorf, till his death in 1833.