Antoine-Louis Polier
Antoine-Louis Polier (baptized the February 28th 1741 with Lausanne, Swiss - assassinated the February 9th 1795) was a Engineer and Orientaliste Suisse.
Biography
Antoine-Louis Polier was youngest wire of Jacques-Henri Polier and his wife Jeanne-Francoise Moreau de Brosses, descendant of a family of Protestants French having emigrated in Suisse in the middle of the 16th century to flee the Wars of religion.
At 15 years, it embarked for the the Indies to join a rich uncle who died before his arrival. Without the penny, Polier then engaged in the British Armée. It remained in India until in 1789 by occupying various important stations with the English Compagnie of the Eastern Indies, then near the Nabab Souja-oul-Doula.
It had tops and bottoms, sometimes it were filled favors, sometimes it knew disgrace. It ordered a time an army of 7.000 men for the Emperor Mogol Shah-Aalum, lost battles, then turned over in the British army.
In 1789 Antoine-Louis Polier returned to Europe, by bringing back a rich person collection of Eastern manuscripts, of which a complete copy of the Vedas in 11 volumes that it offered to the British Museum. It Maria and was fixed at Lausanne.
The disorders which agitated the canton of Vaud determined it to settle in France, not far from Avignon. Accustomed to the Colonial luxury Asian, it excited by the ostentation in its manner of living the cupidity of a troop of brigands which prevailed in the Vaucluse. He was assassinated the February 9th 1795 with blows of saber and sticks of rifle.
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