Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo
Carlo Andrea Count Pozzo di Borgo (born March 8, 1764 in Alata , † February 15, 1842 in Paris ) was a Corsican politician and Russian diplomat.
Life
Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo was born in Alata on the island of Corsica in 1764 . He came from an impoverished Corsican aristocratic family who were enemies with the Corsican Bonaparte family . He studied law and became a lawyer and general procurator in Corsica.
In 1791 he was elected as a representative of the city of Ajaccio because of his revolutionary sentiments in the French Legislative National Assembly. But he soon returned to Corsica and joined the independence movement led by Pascal Paoli . He was a member of the Corsican State Council during the short existence of the Anglo-Corsican Kingdom from 1794 to 1796. After the failure of Corsica's efforts to gain independence, he went to England as a bitter opponent of Bonaparte , where he stood up against the French republic among the French emigrants and also worked as an agent for the French exiled in Germany and Italy. In 1802 he entered the Russian service as a State Councilor.
After the Peace of Tilsit , he left the Russian service because of the tsar's pro-France sentiments and went traveling. After serving Austria with his advice in 1808 and 1809, he returned to England via Constantinople , Syria and Malta , where he found favorable conditions for his hatred of Napoleon Bonaparte . In 1812 he returned to Russia and promoted the establishment of the connection between Tsar Alexander and the British. He rejected any reconciliation with Napoleon's France and, after the outbreak of war, vigorously pursued the advance of the allied armies on Paris and the restoration of the Bourbons . After Napoleon's defeat, he became the Russian ambassador in Paris from 1814 to 1835, took part in the Congress of Vienna and, after Napoleon's flight from Elba and his return to France, joined the British-Prussian army as commissary of the Tsar. He took part in the Battle of Waterloo , in which he was wounded.
When he returned to Paris as ambassador, King Louis XVIII offered him . the Ministry of the Interior and a pair , which he rejected at the request of the Tsar. In 1817 Tsar Alexander I appointed him lieutenant general . As the Russian ambassador, he exerted great influence on all important negotiations between the major European powers and, after the July Revolution , successfully campaigned for the recognition of King Louis-Philippe I in France . Already on September 7, 1832, the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. awarded the Order of the Black Eagle . In 1835 he moved to the post of Russian ambassador in London, where he influenced the settlement of the disputes between the Netherlands and the newly founded Kingdom of Belgium .
Trivia
Valentine Pozzo di Borgo , a great-great-granddaughter of one of the founders of the fragrance company Givaudan , launched the Pozzo di Borgo fragrance line in her company for fragrances Quintessence . One of the men's fragrances was named Mars 1764 after Count 8's date of birth .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Source: Louis Schneider: Das Buch vom Schwarzen Adler, page 208 (32), Duncker, Berlin, 1870.
- ↑ Do I need that? in Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung on August 10, 2014, page 40
source
- Bilder-Conversations -Lexikon for the German people, third volume, page 551, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig, 1839
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pozzo di Borgo, Carlo Andrea |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pozzo di Borgo, Carlo Andrea Graf (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French politician and diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 8, 1764 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Alata |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 15, 1842 |
| Place of death | Paris |