José Manuel Hidalgo y Esnaurrízar
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.
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 |
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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
- ↑ Anales mexicanos: la reforma y el segundo imperio , Comisión Nacional para las Conmemoraciones Cívicas de 1963, 1963, p. 371
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Héctor Díaz Zermeño, México: de la Reforma y el Imperio
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Embajadores de México
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Hidalgo y Esnaurrízar, José Manuel |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mexican ambassador |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1826 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Mexico city |
DATE OF DEATH | December 27, 1896 |
Place of death | Paris |