Andreossi

Andreossi, Antoine Francois, Count, a Frenchman of Italian extraction, born in 1761. He took part in the French Revolution, and then served as an engineer and officer of artillery under Napoleon at the siege of Mantua and in the Egyptian expedition. He was appointed ambassador at Vienna and Constantinople, retiring in 1814. During the Hundred Days he joined his old master again, and was created a peer of France. After Waterloo he spent his life in writing memoirs and scientific works, dying in 1828.