Jean-Baptiste Louis Gros
Jean-Baptiste Louis Gros (born February 8, 1793 in the canton of Ivry-sur-Seine-Ouest , † August 17, 1870 in Paris ) was a French ambassador.
Life
Jean-Baptiste Louis Gros was the son of an employee of the Bathilde d'Orléans .
Jean-Baptiste Louis Gros entered the foreign service in 1823 and became an attaché in Lisbon . In 1828 he was accredited to Muhammad Ali Pasha in Cairo .
As the embassy secretary in Mexico City , Gros and Alexander von Humboldt went up the Popocatépetl for the second time on May 28, 1833 . Then he was embassy secretary in Buenos Aires. Jean-Baptiste Louis Gros was a painter, user of the daguerreotype and member of the Société française de photographie .
From 1838 to 1842 he was the French envoy to the Republic of New Granada . In 1839 he was chargé d'affaires in Caracas . In 1841 the painter Luis García Hevia was honored in Bogotá for his ensayos en daguerrotipo .
In 1849 he was sent to London , where he photographed the Great Exhibition in 1851 , was Ambassador to the Court of St James’s from 1852 to 1863 , in this capacity he was a member of a border control commission between France and Spain from 1854 and in 1857 commander of the French troops in second opium war .
On October 9, 1858, after the Treaty of Kanagawa 1854, he signed the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between France and Japan in Edo .
Works
The Battle of Nazareth
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ El Constitucional, Bogotá, diciembre 1841
- ^ GROS (Jean-Baptiste-Louis, baron), né le 8 février 1793, remplit successivement les fonctions de secrétaire de légation à Mexico, de Chargé d'affaires à Bogota (1834), puis à Buenos-Ayres. Envoyé en mission à Londres (1849), à Athènes (1850) lors du conflit anglo-grec, il fut chargé en 1854 de la présidence de la commission de délimitation des frontières franco-espagnoles. Nommé en 1857 envoyé extraordinaire en Chine. see: Edouard Antoine Thouvenel, La Grèce du roi Othon : correspondance de m. Thouvenel avec sa famille et ses amis, recueillie et publée avec notes et index biographique, Calmann Lévy, 1890 - 465 p., P. 420
- ↑ http://www.wikigallery.org/wiki/painting_205691/Antoine-Jean-Gros/The-Battle-of-Nazareth
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Auguste LeMoyne | Ambassade de France en Colombie 1838–1842 |
Elie Albéric Neton (1869-1965) |
| Augustin-Jean Mahélin |
French ambassador to Caracas 1839 |
De la Palun |
| Ambassade de France en Grèce 1850 |
de Vaux de Saint-Cyr | |
| Alexandre Colonna-Walewski |
French envoy to London 1852–1863 |
Paul Challemel-Lacour |
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Alphonse de Bourboulon | Ambassade de France en Chine 1857 |
Alphonse de Bourboulon |
| Ambassade de France au Japon 1858 |
Charles Gustave Martin de Chassiron |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gros, Jean-Baptiste Louis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French ambassador |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 8, 1793 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Canton of Ivry-sur-Seine-Ouest |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th August 1870 |
| Place of death | Paris |