CHASTELLUX, shet'tInks'. FFLANcOIS JEAN, Marquis de (1734-S8). A French soldier and writer. He was born in Paris. entered the French Army in 1749, distinguished himself in the Seven Years' War, and from 1780 to 17A2 served as a major-general in the French a mit% under Rochambeau, which eo(lperated with the Americans against the English in the Revolu tionary War. After his return to Frame until hi, death he held the position of inspector of infantry. and in 1786 he became a mar quis by the death of an eider brother. His reputation rests chiefly upon his l'oyuges dons rimer-iglu' srplentrionaln, dues les I7S1 rt I7s2 Eng. translation by Kent. 1757) in which be gives an interest ing. account of many person, and places con nected with the American Revolution and of many localities visited by hint in a tout- through the Middle States and the northern pert of Virginia. For the most part the book has been ,onsidered a reasonably accurate picture of the United at that time. but certain portions of it nut• with severe eriticism, especially at. the hands of de War•ille, who wrote an Examen critique des -Voyage s darns VA nu'rique pf nit-in/a." dans flue I on rnf etc
pal, int +11 sf 8 opinions sur les Quakers, stir lks to'gres, sur Fe peuple ct sur l'homme (Paris, 1787). Chastellux also wrote: be to fulieitt.' pablique, ou eunsidt rations sur le sort des 'tontines dons ics S IpOques do rhistoin (1772), which was highly praised by Voltaire (who is said to have ranked it above .Montes quien's Esprit des lois), but which gave con siderable offense to many by its strictures upon Christianity: be runion de la pot'sie et de id inusique (1775): and bi,seaurs sur les arantages et tes df'sarantages qui rnsultint pour !'Europe do la ch'eourerte de VA ou'riqu• (1787). iu which. answering the famous question proposed by IZaynal, he asserts that the advantages have greatly outweighed the disadvantages. Consult: Chastellux. Notice sur b marquis de ('hu:deltas ( Paris, 1822), and Paseallet, Notice historique stir lit maison de ehastellus (Paris, IS44).