André Boniface Louis Riqueti de Mirabeau

Known as Barrel Mirabeau (Mirabeau-Tonneau) because of his "rotundity" and voluminous taste for drink,[1] he was sent to the army in Malta in 1776, and spent part of his two years there in prison for insulting a religious procession.

He served as a colonel, commanding the Touraine Regiment under the comte de Rochambeau in the American Revolution.

He was not very successful in his efforts to form a regiment from French exiles and deserters, and died of a stroke in Freiburg two years later.

[4]He shared fully in the eccentric family pride; and boasted of his brother's genius even when bitterly opposing him.

He emigrated about 1790 and raised a legion which was to bear his name; but his insolence alienated the German princes and his command was taken from him.