Louis-Grégoire Le Hoc
Louis-Grégoire Le Hoc (born October 28, 1743 in Paris , † October 15, 1810 ibid) was a French diplomat .
Life
Louis-Grégoire Le Hoc was the son of a respected doctor and enjoyed an education that gave him a career in the administrative hierarchy. The talents he displayed earned him an honorable mention from Finance Minister Jacques Necker . In 1778 King Louis XVI appointed him . as General Commissioner of the Navy for the exchange of prisoners of war. This office earned him pension entitlements of 6,000 francs.
Le Hoc accompanied Marie-Gabriel-Florent-Auguste de Choiseul-Gouffier as first-class legation secretary to Constantinople . On the trip he made friends with the poet Jacques Delille in Athens .
In 1787 Charles Alexandre de Calonne called him to Paris, where he was entrusted with the preparation of the Assemblée des notables .
From 1788 to 1789 he was finance officer under Louis-Philippe II. Joseph de Bourbon, duc d'Orléans , Duke of Orléans , and he was also given command of a battalion of the Paris National Guard . After the attempted escape of King Louis XVI. in June 1791, the constituent national assembly commissioned Le Hoc with the care and education of the Dauphin Louis Joseph Xavier François de Bourbon .
On February 21, 1792, Le Hoc served in the Palais des Tuileries , the new residence of Louis XVI. He mastered this task so convincingly that the king appointed him his envoy in Hamburg in gratitude . He held this office until January 21, 1793, when he was recalled by order of the National Convention and imprisoned for nine months.
In 1795 the Directory appointed him "extraordinary ambassador before the Swedish king". He was retired on November 9, 1799 .
After the introduction of the départements , Le Hoc chaired the administration of the Département Oise . He wrote the tragedy Pyrrhus, ou les Æacides , which premiered on February 27, 1807 in the Paris theater Théâtre-Française . After his death he was buried in the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris.
Individual evidence
- ^ Antoine-Vincent Arnault, Antoine Jay, Etienne de Jouy, Jacques Marquet de Norvins, Norvins, Biographie nouvelle des contemporains: ou Dictionnaire historique , p. 281
- ↑ Mercure de France , Vol. 28, p. 355. Paris, 1807.
- ↑ Eduard Maria Oettinger, Hugo Schramm-Macdonald, Moniteur des dates: contenant un million de renseignements , 1867, 192 p., P. 113
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Sauveur-Joseph Gandolphe (Gt) |
French envoy to the Hanseatic cities 1792 to 1793 |
Karl Friedrich Reinhard |
| Louis-Marc Rivals |
French envoy to Sweden 1795 to 1796 |
Louis de Perrochel |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Le Hoc, Louis-Grégoire |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 28, 1743 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 15, 1810 |
| Place of death | Paris |