where he found a friend in the prince de Ligne. He died in 1803 in Vienna. Works Sénac also wrote a moderate exposition of the causes that led to the Revolution, entitled Du gouvernement, des mœurs et des conditions en France avant la Révolution, avec les caractères des principaux personnages du règne de Louis XVI; the last part was reprinted (1813) by the duc de Levis with a notice of the author as Portraits & caractères. Sénac collected his own Œuvres philosophiques & litteraires (2 vols.) at Hamburg in 1795. See his Œuvres choisies, edited by M. de Lescure in 1862; Lettres inédites de Madame de Créquy a Sénac de Meilhan (1856), edited by Édouard Fournier; Louis Legrand, Sénac de Meilhan & l'intendance du Hainaut & du Cambrsis (1868); and the notice by Fernand Caussy prefixed to his edition (1905) of the Considérations sur l'esprit riles mœurs. References External links 1736 births 1803 deaths Writers from Versailles 18th-century French historians 18th-century French novelists French essayists French male essayists French male novelists 18th-century essayists 18th-century French male writers