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{{Infobox officeholder|image=File:Spiga Portrait.png|name=<center>Augustine Spiga|birth_date=14 March 1757|birth_place=Port of Toulon, [[France]]|death_date=16 November 1817|death_place=San Cipriano, [[Genoa]] <br> (age 60) </br>|father=Quirico Spiga|mother=Elisa Spiga|office=[[List of French leaders|Director-General of France]]|term_start=19 January 1795|term_end=30 March 1814|order2=4th|office1=[[List of French leaders|President of the States-General]]|term_start1=9 October 1794|term_end1=19 January 1795|monarch1=[[Henry, Duke of Aquitaine]]}}
'''Augustine Spiga''' ([[English language#Phonology|[ˈəɡəˌstiːn spiːkə]]]; 14 March 1757 – 16 November 1817; [[Italian language|Italian]]: ''Agostino Spiga'') was a [[France|French]] statesman and admiral who was Director-General of France from 1793 to 1814. He led his country throughout the [[Augustine Wars|French Revolution and eponymous Augustine Wars]], eventually sustaining defeat and being forcibly discharged to the [[Genoa|Genoese Republic]] with the 1814 Treaty of Vienna. As a political leader and international ideological icon, he played a pivotal role in the development of [[national republicanism]], the dismantlement of monarchy in Europe, and the global expansion of the French colonial empire.
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== Official appointment and Rossignol's grip ==
With the death of the [[Henry, Duke of Aquitaine|Duke of Aquitaine]] on 18 January 1795, Spiga was temporarily appointed ''Interrex'' ('between kings') by the French States-General at around 11 a.m.
[[Jacques Rossignol]], a longtime colleague and friend of Spiga, was appointed Marshal of France in early March. He soon became one of the Council of Ten, an executive advisory body formed under the early directory. Using his tenuous history with Spiga prior to the French Revolution, Rossignol exerted immense influence over the French government, pushing for the militarization of the Republic.
== See also ==
[[Category:People]]
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