Anne-Emmanuel-Ferdinand-François de Croÿ

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of Solre and Duke of Croÿ (10 September 1743 – 15 December 1803) was a French

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of the 18th century who attained the rank of ''

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''. He served as a member of the National Constituent Assembly of 1789 representing the

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, Hainaut. He had previously served as a member of the

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in 1788 and 1789. Withdrawing from France during the French Revolution, he received the sovereignty of

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after the Congress of Ratisbon (1797).Charles Joseph de Francque, ''Recueil historique, généalogique, chronologique et nobiliare'' (Brussels, 1826), p. 26 s.v. Croy. Anne was the only son of

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, the 7th Duke of Croÿ.

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