Francois Claude Amour Bouille, marquis de, a French general, born Nov. 19, 1739, died in London, Nov. 14, 1800. He distinguished himself in the seven years' war, was appointed governor of Guadeloupe in 1768, and at the beginning of the American war of independence was governor general of the French Antilles. He not only preserved those islands against the English, but succeeded in taking several others from them. At the same time he displayed such magnanimity that on visiting England at the conclusion of peace he received there public tokens of admiration. In the first years of the revolution he was in command of the eastern military division of France, and ably contended with great difficulties arising from the rebellious disposition of the population and the mutinous spirit of the troops. When Louis XVI. projected his flight from France, he consulted Bouille, who entered into the plan.and made all the necessary preparations; but notwithstanding all the efforts of the general, the king was arrested at Varennes (June 21, 1791). Bouille thereupon fled from France and went afterward to Russia, where Catharine II. promised him an army of 30,000 men to invade France; but the promise was never fulfilled, and Bouille repaired to England, where he wrote his excellent Memoires sur la revolution franpaise, first printed in English at London in 1797, translated into German (Hamburg, 1798), and not published in French till 1801.