Louis-Auguste Felix de Beaujour

Louis-Auguste Félix de Beaujour tomb in the Cimetière du Père-Lachaise cemetery

Louis-Auguste Felix de Beaujour baptized as Louis-Auguste Féris (born December 28, 1765 in Callas , Département Var , † July 1, 1836 in Paris ) was a French diplomat. From 1804 to 1810 he was French consul general in the USA , representing Napoleon Bonaparte at Thomas Jefferson .

Life

He studied in Aix-en-Provence and Paris and entered the diplomatic service. In 1790 he was secretary of the embassy to Karl Theodor in Munich and in 1791 to Friedrich August I in Dresden. In 1794 he was Consul General in the Ottoman Empire in Thessaloniki . Louis-Auguste Féris was a business journalist. He reported on trade in Greece and Thessaloniki at the end of the 18th century. His description was published by Matthias Christian Sprengel in Weimar in the Industrie-Comptoirs in 1801.

In 1799 he was charge d'affaires for Gustav IV Adolf in Stockholm. In 1800 he formed a rope team with Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès in Paris. Louis-Auguste Felix de Beaujour first became a member, then secretary and in 1803 President of the Tribunate .

After the dissolution of this legislative power, Napoleon Bonaparte sent him to the USA as his general representative with the task of collecting loans from France to Mexico.

The capital of the USA was moved from Philadelphia to Washington in 1800 , where Louis-Auguste Felix de Beaujour resided from 1804 to 1810. He collected economic and structural data as well as maps of the USA. He tried for the Chevalier Luxembourg, which had participated in the financing of the frigate South Carolina Navy of the Continental Congress , to collect the agreed quarter of a prize money that the ship had received on the crossing.

In 1814 he returned to France and was made a Knight of the French Legion of Honor . Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord sent him in 1816 as consul general to Smyrna in Asia Minor . On September 3, 1817, he was knighted by the Guardian of the Franciscan Custody in the Holy Land of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem . After the Congress of Vienna in 1815, Louis-Auguste Félis became inspector general of the French settlements in the Levant in 1817 .

In 1818 Louis XVIII rated him . to Louis-Auguste Felix de Beaujour .

From 1831 to 1834 he was governor in the Bouches-du-Rhône department . In 1834 he became peer of France . In 1836 he was accepted into the Académie des sciences morales et politiques and named after him an economic award, which is awarded every five years .

His chimney-shaped tomb is 20 meters high and is located on the Cimetière du Père-Lachaise .

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from June 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Cimetière du Père-Lachaise: le "phare" de Félix de Beaujour, 48 ° division ( Memento of July 13, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )

predecessor	Office	successor
Louis Marie Turreau	French ambassador to the USA 1804–1810	Louis Barbe Charles Sérurier