Julien Bessières
Julien Bessières (actually Henri Géraud Julien, chevalier Bessières et de l'Empire ; born July 30, 1777 in Gramat , Département Lot , † July 31, 1840 in Paris ) was a French politician and diplomat.
Life
Bessières was a cousin of Marshal of France Jean-Baptiste Bessières and General Bertrand Bessières . In 1798 Napoleon brought him to the Commission des sciences et des arts , which accompanied him on his invasion of Egypt . Seriously ill, Bessières wanted to return to France on October 26, 1798 on the ship Madonna di Montenegro . He was accompanied by his fellow Commissioners Joseph Claude Charbonnel , Pierre-Simon Girard , Étienne Poitevin de Maureilhan and François Pouqueville , among others . The ship was ambushed by Albanian pirates and the passengers were taken hostage.
Bessières was sold together with Charbonnel and Poitevin de Maureilhan to Tepedelenli Ali Pascha , who imprisoned them in the New Fortress of Corfu in 1880 . On the night of November 21st to 22nd of the same year they escaped and returned to France.
In 1803 Bessières was appointed to the administration of the Hautes-Alpes department . After a year he went to the Sublime Porte as envoy . When Venice fell to the Kingdom of Italy in 1805 , Bessières was appointed consul general to the Serenissima . Between 1810 and 1814 he held various political and administrative posts. During the Restoration he was close to the royalists and in 1827 represented the Dordogne department as a member of parliament . He also held this mandate during the July monarchy .
Bessières died the night after his 63rd birthday and found his final resting place in the Père Lachaise cemetery .
Honors
literature
- François Pouqueville: Voyage au Morée, è Constantinople, en Albanie, et dans plusieurs autres parties de l'empire Ottoman . Paris 1805 (3 vols.).
- Dr. Vincent: Les Français à Corfu. L'arrivée . In: Revue des Ètudes napoléoniennes , vol. 30 (1930).
Individual evidence
- ^ Reference on a page of the French Ministry of Culture , accessed on April 4, 2013
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SURNAME | Bessières, Julien |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bessières et de l'Empire, Henri Géraud Julien Chevalier |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French politician and diplomat |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 30, 1777 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Gramat , Lot department |
DATE OF DEATH | July 31, 1840 |
Place of death | Paris |