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ants, and Azzo took refuge, as many otther ghibelineshad done, in Provence ; and the name of Iliquetti isfound on various occasions in the history of Marseilles .Those who bore it played at all times a foremost andbold part: they were eagle-eyed men, fierce and head-strong, yet discerning. During the war of the frondethe family was royalist, and was rewarded by a patent ofLouis XIV. , which erected their estate of Mirabeau into amarquisate. Jean Antoine, grandfather of the subject ofthis memoir, was one of five sons, who all ran an eccentric,bold, and active career. He passed his younger days inthe army, and went through many hairbreadth perils andincredible adventures. The last campaign in which heserved was that of the duke de Vendome, in Italy . Heperformed prodigies of valour in the battle of Cassano,and was left for dead on the field. Found by the enemywith some slight signs of life, prince Eugene, who knewand esteemed him, sent him, without ransom, to theFrench camp, that the operation necessary for his pre-servation might not be delayed. His life was saved,but he survived frightfully mutilated, and a martyr tosevere physical suffering to the end of his life. He re-turned home to find his fortune dilapidated, but never tolose that intrepidity and pride that formed the foundationof the family character. He married, and found in theadmirable character of his wife the reward and solace ofhis sufferings : she had been struck by the heroism ofhis character; and it is related of her, that some expres-sions of pity for her being the wife of a cripple, and ofa man of a haughty, imperious character, having met herear, she exclaimed, “ Ah ! if you knew how happy oneis to be able to respect one’s husband.” He was an ad-mirable landlord and a careful father ; and his familyflourished under his superintendence, till implicated,through the imprudence of his wife’s brother, in thesystem .of Law, he was ruined on the breaking of thebubble. From that time he lived in retirement, bend-ing all his efforts to the paying his debts and repair-ing his fortune. He died in 1737, at tine age of