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S|NDRE DUFRESNOY was born at Valen-
clennes in 1733. He embraced the me-
dical profession, and was appointed phy-
sician of the military hospital in his native
city, and, being a considerable proficient in botany,
was also a professor of that science. In 1793 he
received the appointment of physician-in-chief to
the Army of the North. His predecessor in that
post having remained at Brussels after the defec-
tion of General Dumouriez, had been proscribed
and put on the list of the émigrés. Dufresnoy
learned that he was sick, and was anxious to return
to his native land; and, prompted by his generous
heart, he ventured to write in favour of the unfor-
tunate man to the Minister of War. This humane
and courageous act was taken in very ill part by the
authorities ; and Dufresnoy, accused of complicity
with an émigré, was, in consequence, deposed from