Julien Bessières

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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

  1. ^ Reference on a page of the French Ministry of Culture , accessed on April 4, 2013
personal data
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