Claude de Thiard de Bissy
Claude de Thiard de Bissy was a French soldier. He served his military career, rising to lieutenant-général des armées du roi in 1762 and fighting in the conquest of Franche-Comté and becoming governor of Languedoc and Auxonne.Biography
The son of Claude, 7th count of Bissy and
Sylvie Angélique Andrault de Langeron, he was thus a descendant of the poet Pontus de Tyard. He was elected a member of the Académie française in 1750 and remained a member for 60 years. He wrote a Histoire d'Ema ou de l'âme.
