Louis Adolphe le Doulcet, comte de Pontécoulant, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 10-May-1795
Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France
Date of Death: 20-Feb-1882
Profession: military personnel, musicologist
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Louis Adolphe le Doulcet, comte de Pontécoulant
- Louis Adolphe le Doulcet, comte de Pontécoulant (1794 – 20 February 1882) was a French soldier and musicologist.
- He was the son of Louis Gustave le Doulcet, comte de Pontécoulant and the older brother of Philippe Gustave le Doulcet. A soldier in the armies of Napoleon I, he fought in the invasion of Russia and the campaign of 1814, and then emigrated to [Brazil, where he took part in the abortive Pernambucan Revolution in 1817. He also organized a French volunteer contingent in the Belgian Revolution of 1830, and was wounded at Louvain.
- The rest of his life was spent in Paris in the study of ancient music and acoustics.
- Among his works was one on the Musée instrumental du Conservatoire (1864).
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