Alberto Blanc

This article deals with the diplomat, for the geologist see Alberto Carlo Blanc (1906–1960)

Alberto Blanc

Alberto Blanc (born November 10, 1835 in Chambéry , † May 31, 1904 in Turin ) was an Italian diplomat .

Since the larger and more important part of his service time was after the elevation to the nobility , he often appears in literature as Alberto de Blanc .

Life

Alberto Blanc was the son of Mariette Cartannas and Louis François Blanc. At the time of the cession of Savoy to France, he chose Italian citizenship. Alberto Blanc attended the Cavour School, studied law at the University of Turin and obtained a doctorate in law . As a student he wrote for the Revue des Deux Mondes and the Journal des Débats in Paris. In the series Memoirs Diplomatiques he published a study of the correspondence of the mission of Joseph de Maistre in Saint Petersburg in 1802 . On February 2, 1860, Camillo Benso von Cavour sent him on a mission to Paris. On October 24, 1860, he entered the foreign service. In 1864 Alberto Blanc was Alfonso La Marmora's chief of staff .

In March 1866 he was sent to Constantinople with Emilio Visconti-Venosta , as his legation secretary . Marchese Visconti-Venosta was recalled immediately upon arrival and became a minister in Bettino Ricasoli's government. From August 3 to October 3, 1866, after the end of the war with Austria , Alberto Blanc took part in the negotiations for the Peace of Vienna . On May 4, 1867, he was sent to London for a conference on the Luxembourg crisis. In 1868 he was chargé d'affaires in Vienna . After the Battle of Sedan , in September 1870, he negotiated with Pius IX. the Roman question in the camp of Raffaele Cadorna the Elder . From October 27, 1870 to May 28, 1871 he was ambassador next to the Real Sitio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial , in 1871 he moved to Brussels as ambassador .

Victor Emanuel II knighted him in 1873 . From November 12, 1875 to 1880 he was ambassador to Washington, DC , where he married Dolores Natica Terry on May 12, 1878. Her son was the scientist Gian Alberto Blanc (born June 24, 1879 New York City , † December 31, 1966 in Rome ) From November 28, 1880 to August 31, 1881 he was envoy in Munich . From December 31, 1883 to 1886, he was again ambassador to Madrid. On February 2, 1885, the governments of the United States and Spain agreed by exchange of notes to give Alberto Blanc the mandate for mediation in the case of the seizure of the USS Masonic, which was seized off Manila by Spanish customs on May 16, 1878 .

From February 3, 1887 to October 2, 1891 he was ambassador at the high gate in Constantinople . On August 6, 1888, he was general agent for the Convention on the Free Use of the Suez Canal . In 1892 he was of Umberto I to Senator appointed. From December 15, 1893 to March 10, 1896, he was Foreign Minister in the cabinet of Francesco Crispi . His tenure as foreign minister ended as a result of the government crisis and the resignation of Crispi after the defeat of the Italian troops in the Battle of Adua against the army of the Ethiopian emperor Menelik II.

Publications

• la Correspondance diplomatique di Joseph de Maistre
• with l'Artom, uno studio sull'opera parlamente del Cavour.

Individual evidence

1. ^ The New York Times , May 12, 1878, BARON BLANC'S MARRIAGE .; A FASHIONABLE SATURDAY NIGHT, EVENT . pdf
2. ↑ Senato della Repubblica , BLANC Alberto , Enciclopedie on line, Blanc ‹blã›, Alberto

predecessor	Office	successor
Giulio Camillo de Barral de Monteauvrand	Italian charge d'affaires in Vienna 1868	Gioacchino Pepoli
Marcello Cerruti Giuseppe Greppi	Italian Ambassador to Madrid October 27, 1870 to May 28, 1871 December 31, 1883 to 1885	Giulio Camillo De Barral de Monteauvrand Carlos Alberto Maffei the Boglio
Giulio Camillo De Barral de Monteauvrand	Italian envoy to Brussels from 1871 to 1877	Giulio Camillo De Barral de Monteauvrand
Luigi Córti	Italian Ambassador to Washington, DC November 12, 1875 to November 28, 1880	Saverio de Fava
Luigi Rati-Oppizione	Italian envoy in Munich November 28, 1880 to August 31, 1881	Ulisse Raffaele
Francesco Galvagna	Italian Ambassador to Constantinople February 3, 1887 to October 2, 1891	Constantino Ressmann
Benedetto Brin	Italian Foreign Minister December 15, 1893 to October 2, 1891	Onorato Caetani