Who was the surgeon's son turned spy sent to St Petersburg, Russia's second largert city?
Méhée de La Touche: Jean-Claude-Hippolyte Méhée de La Touche (1762-1826) was the son of a surgeon in Meaux. Méhée de La Touche:  He returned to Paris after the French Revolution, and was sent to Saint Petersburg as a spy under the name "Chevalier de La Touche" by Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau and Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette. Saint Petersburg: Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг , "Sankt-Peterburg"; ] ) is Russia's second-largest city after Moscow, with five million inhabitants in 2012, and an important Russian port on the Baltic Sea.
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