Louis Fauche-Borel
Abraham Louis Fauche-Borel (born April 12, 1762 in Neuchâtel , Switzerland ; † September 4, 1829 there ) was a Swiss printer and bookseller.
Life
Louis Fauche-Borel, one of the most skilled negotiators of the Bourbons driven out by the Revolution , was a printer and bookseller by nature. After the outbreak of the French Revolution , he worked in the interests of the royal family and the emigrants, printed and distributed their manifestos and set up shop as a bookseller in Strasbourg for negotiations with Jean-Charles Pichegru, won by the Bourbons .
Arrested here in 1795 on the orders of the Directory , since no suspicious papers were found on him, he was soon released and went to work even more brazen. It was he who in 1797 the proclamation of Louis XVIII. spread what promised the French a constitution; He also made several trips to befriended courts on Ludwig's behalf until the coup d'état of 18th Brumaire VIII destroyed all his plans.
Arrested again, he regained his freedom through the intercession of the Prussian ambassador, but only on the condition that he did not set foot on French soil again. In 1804 he distributed the manifesto of Louis XVIII. to the French nation, stayed in England and Sweden since 1806 and, after the battle of Paris on March 30, 1814, entered Paris with the allies , where he was used for secret broadcasts by Prince Karl August von Hardenberg . After Napoleon Bonaparte's return ( rule of the hundred days ) he went to Louis XVIII on behalf of the Viennese court. to Ghent and then lived for a long time in England until Prince Hardenberg sent him to Neuchâtel as the Prussian consul general. Charles X granted him a pension of 5,000 francs .
Louis Fauche-Borel died on September 4, 1829 by jumping out of a window. His mémoires were only published after his death.
Individual evidence
- ^ Louis Fauche-Borel: Memoires . Moutardier, Paris 1830 (4 vol.).
Web links
- Valérie Cossy: Fauche [-Borel], Abraham Louis. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Fauche-Borel, Louis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fauche-Borel, Abraham Louis; Fauche, Abraham Louis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss printer and bookseller |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 12, 1762 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neuchâtel , Switzerland |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 4, 1829 |
| Place of death | Neuchâtel , Switzerland |