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He was born in Paris . Having served in the American War Of Independence under Rochambeau , he was sent in 1789 as deputy to the '' States-General '' by the nobles of the '' Bailliage '' of Péronne . In the Constituent Assembly he formed with Barnave and Adrien Duport a "Triumvirate," which controlled a group of about forty deputies forming the advanced left of the Assembly. He presented a famous report in the Constituent Assembly on the organization of the army, but is better known by his eloquent speech on February 28 , 1791 , at the Jacobin Club , against Honoré Mirabeau , whose relations with the court were beginning to be suspected, and who was a personal enemy of Lameth. However, after the flight of Louis XVI to Varennes , Lameth became reconciled with the court. He served in the army as ''maréchal-de-camp'' under Nicolas Luckner and the Marquis De La Fayette , but was accused of Treason on August 15 1792 , fled the country, and was imprisoned by the Austria ns. After his release he went into business at Hamburg with his brother Charles and the Duc D'Aiguillon , and did not return to France until the Consulate . Under the Empire he was made prefect successively in several departments, and in 1810 was created a baron. In 1814 he attached himself to the Bourbon s, and under the Restoration was appointed prefect of Somme , deputy for Seine-Inférieure and finally deputy for Seine-et-Oise , in which capacity he was a leader of the Liberal opposition. He was the author of an important History of the Constituent Assembly (Paris, 2 vols., 1828-1829). He had two brothers, Théodore Lameth (1756-1854) who served in the American war, sat in the Legislative Assembly as deputy from the department of Jura, and became maréchal-de-camp; and Charles Malo François Lameth . See FA Aulard , ''Les Orateurs de l'Assemblée Constituante'' (Paris, 1905); also Jean Maurice Tourneux , ''Bibliog. de l'histoire de Paris'' (vol. iv., 1906, s.v. "Lameth"). REFERENCE
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