José Manuel Hidalgo y Esnaurrízar

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José Manuel Hidalgo y Esnaurrízar (* 1826 in Mexico City , † December 27, 1896 in Paris ) was a Mexican monarchist and ambassador .

Life

His parents were María de las Mercedes Esnaurrízar Ávila (* 1802 in Mexico) his father was a Spanish hacendado . He married Eugenia de Hidalgo from Biarritz .

During the Mexican-American War he met Manuel Eduardo de Gorostiza in prison after the Battle of Churmbusco in 1847. Manuel Eduardo de Gorostiza took him to London as the embassy secretary . Hidalgo traveled to Rome and received an audience with Pius IX. In 1854 he was sent by the Mexican government as the first secretary to the embassy in Washington . He was later sent to Madrid in the same capacity. In Madrid he was received in the house of María Manuela Kirkpatrick, widow Montijo, mother of Eugénie de Montijo . With this he campaigned, with the help of Juan Almonte, for the export of a monarchy to Mexico. He belonged to the Commission, which Maximilian I in Miramare Castle offered a crown of Mexico.

A delegation offers Maximilian I the crown

Maximilian appointed Hidalgo to be his ambassador at the court of Napoleon III.

From May 4, 1865 until his death, the lawyer Jesús Terán y Peredo (born January 14, 1821 in Aguascalientes , † April 25, 1866 in Paris ) was Benito Juarez's agent in Europe.

Hidalgo was recalled and when he returned to Mexico he broke with Maximilian, submitted his irrevocable resignation as a diplomat and went to France.

Publications

  • Apuntes para escribir the historia de los proyectos de monarquía en México
predecessor Office successor
Juan Antonio de la Fuente Ambassador of Maximilian I of Mexico to Napoleon III.
April 17, 1864 to October 24, 1865
José Francisco Rus

Individual evidence

  1. Anales mexicanos: la reforma y el segundo imperio , Comisión Nacional para las Conmemoraciones Cívicas de 1963, 1963, p. 371
  2. 14 de enero de 1821. Nace en Aguascalientes, Jesús Terán y Peredo ( Memento of the original of September 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bicentenario.gob.mx
  3. Héctor Díaz Zermeño, México: de la Reforma y el Imperio
  4. José Manuel Hidalgo y Esnaurrízar, Apuntes para escribir la historia de los proyectos de monarquía en México desde el réinado de Carlos III hasta la instalacion de Emperador Maximilano, Paris Libreía Española de Garnier Hermanos
  5. Embajadores de México