Alexandre de Laborde

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Alexandre de Laborde

Alexandre de Laborde , completely Louis-Joseph-Alexandre, comte de Laborde, (born September 17, 1773 in Paris , † October 20, 1842 ibid) was a French diplomat, traveler, official, scholar and politician.

Alexandre de Laborde was the fourth son of the wealthy banker Jean-Joseph de Laborde . Sent to Austria by his father, who was guillotined, he served as an officer in the Austrian army from 1793 to 1797.

After he was able to return to France in 1797, he entered the diplomatic service under Talleyrand , who became his patron. 1800/01 he was attache at the French embassy in Spain under Lucien Bonaparte . Laborde's lover Alexandrine Jacob de Bleschamp became the wife of Lucien Bonaparte, which led to resentment with Napoleon Bonaparte , so that Laborde first devoted himself to the publication of his travel reports through Spain. In 1808 he entered the administrative service of the French state and became an official of the Council of State , initially as an auditor, from 1809 to 1814 and 1818 to 1824 as Maître des requêtes , in 1811 he was appointed Directeur des Ponts et Chaussées in the Seine department .

From 1805 to 1814 he was mayor of Méréville (Essonne) . From 1822 to 1824 and 1827 to 1830 he was a member of the Chamber of Deputies for the Seine department . From July 30 to August 30, 1830 he was briefly prefect of the Seine department, then general of the National Guard and advisor to King Louis-Philippe . From 1831 to 1837 he was again a member of parliament for the Seine department, and then for the Seine-et-Oise department until his death .

Laborde wrote numerous historical and regional studies in particular, often combined with extensive trips. His romantically tinted travelogues with illustrations became widespread. From 1826 to the beginning of 1828 he undertook a trip through Europe and the Middle East with his son Léon de Laborde (1807–1869). The plan for a complete inventory of all cultural monuments in France goes back to him, which initially failed in his time, but in 1834 led to the creation of the office of the highest French monument protector ("Inspecteur des monuments historiques de France").

Laborde was a member of numerous academies and learned societies, such as the Classe d'histoire et de littérature ancienne des Institut de France (1813-1816), the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (1816), the Académie des sciences morales et politiques (1832 ), the Société des bibliophiles français , the Société des antiquaires de France (1811). He was also an officer in the Legion of Honor .

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  • Description d'un pavé en mosaïque découvert dans l'ancienne ville d'Italica (1802)
  • Description of the nouveaux jardins de la France et de ses anciens châteaux (1803–1815)
  • Lettres sur les sons harmoniques de la harpe (1806)
  • Voyage historique et pittoresque en Espagne (4 volumes, 1807)
  • Discours sur la vie e la campagne (1808)
  • Itinéraire descriptif de l'Espagne (5 volumes and booklet, 1808; 2nd edition 1809)
  • Voyage pittoresque en Autriche (3 volumes, 1809)
  • Des aristocraties représentatives (1814)
  • De la representation véritable de la communauté (1815)
  • Les monuments de la France, classés chronologiquement (1816–1826)
  • Projets d'embellissement de Paris (1816)
  • Quarante-huit heures de garde aux Tuileries, pendant les journées des 19 et 20 mars 1815. Par un grenadier de la Garde Nationale (1816)
  • Plan d'éducation pour les enfants pauvres (1819)
  • Aperçu de la situation financière de l'Espagne (1823)
  • Précis historique de la guerre entre la France et l'Autriche en 1809 (1823)
  • Collection de vases grecs expliquée (2 volumes, 1824–1828)
  • Au roi et aux chambres, sur la question d'Alger (1830)
  • Paris municipe ou tableau de l'administration de la ville de Paris (1833)
  • Versailles, ancien et modern (1830–1840)

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SURNAME Laborde, Alexandre de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Laborde, Louis-Joseph-Alexandre de (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French diplomat, civil servant, traveler, scholar and politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1773
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH October 20, 1842
Place of death Paris