Pierre Marc Gaston de Lévis, Duke of Lévis, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Pierre Marc Gaston de Lévis, Duke of Lévis

French politician

Date of Birth: 07-Mar-1764

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 15-Feb-1830

Profession: writer, military personnel, politician, philosopher

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Pierre-Marc-Gaston de Lévis (7 March 1764, Paris – 15 February 1830), second duke of Lévis, peer of France, was a French politician, aphorist and député to the National Constituent Assembly.
His father was the first duke of Lévis, marshal Francis de Gaston.
In 1816 he was elected to seat 6 of the Académie française.
During the French Revolution, he escaped to England.
Two of his three sisters and his mother were sent to the guillotine during the French Revolution.
He is credited with the quotation "Boredom is an illness for which work is the remedy".
The quotation often attributed to Voltaire, "Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers" is a version of one of his maxims - "Il est encore plus facile de juger de l'esprit d'un homme par ses questions que par ses réponses." (It is easier to judge the mind of a man by his questions rather than his answers) from Maximes et réflexions sur différents sujets de morale et de politique (Paris, 1808): Maxim xviii.