Michel Ange Bernard de Mangourit

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Michel Ange Bernard de Mangourit du Champ-Duguet (born August 21, 1752 in Rennes , † February 17, 1829 in Paris ), also briefly Michel Ange Mangourit , was a French diplomatic agent, ambassador to the United States of America from 1796 to 1800 , Publicist and writer .

Life

He was the son of Bernard de Mangourit and Marguerite-Angélique Cairgnon de La Touche.

Mangourit was first an officer , then from 1777 a lieutenant criminel at the higher regional court in Rennes. He was also a Freemason (co-founder of the Lodge "L'Égalité" in Rennes) and a follower of the Enlightenment . In 1777 he was a criminal judge. He married Louise de La Bidard Morini on August 25, 1777 (she died in Paris on June 26, 1807). In 1787 he was commissioner of the provincial assembly. In 1798 he went to Paris and edited and distributed the journal Le Héraut de la Nation in Brittany . That year he was appointed resident of the French Republic in Valais by the Board of Directors . He was present when the Bastille was stormed .

In 1792 he was appointed French Consul General in Charleston , South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia. After the Haitian Revolution, he dealt with refugees from the former French colony of Saint-Domingue . He was instrumental in the establishment of the French Patriotic Society and the beginning of the political parties. Mangourit worked with Edmond-Charles Genêt as ambassador to Charleston. He maintained relations with the American general William Moultrie (1731-1805). He went to Savannah , where he met Claudius Bert de Majann, a veteran of Pulaski's Legion . On March 13, 1794, he attended the destruction of the statue of William Pitt, Sr. at.

Mangourit was Minister of Foreign Affairs in the government of the National Convention from November 3, 1794 to November 21, 1794 . From February to August 1796 he was legation secretary at the Frankish legation in Madrid and was appointed ambassador to the United States that same year.

The Allgemeine Zeitung in Munich reported on June 22nd, 1798: " Mangourit, previous resident in Valais, has been appointed legation secretary and business manager in Naples ."

He worked 1801 with General Jean-Charles Monnier (1758-1816) in Ancona and was used for secret missions. The Jenaische Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung wrote in 1805:

Mr. Mangourit, through his history of the defense of Ancona, and especially through the excerpts from it in German journals, is also known in Germany as a writer who knows how to arouse the interest of the reader through the warmth of feeling and the liveliness of the style.

In 1803 Mangourit followed the French troops to the Electorate of Hanover to report to his government on the situation. He took advice from, among others, the Commerce Councilor Christian Ludwig Albrecht Patje and the secret secretary Ernst Brandes, and in the end wrote a long book about his client trip to Hanover. In 1803 he was also elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

Michel Ange Mangourit was an ardent apostle of Freemasonry and founder of the Society of Antiquaries of France.

Works

See also

literature

  • Robert J. Alderson: This bright era of happy revolutions: French Consul Michel-Ange-Bernard Mangourit and international republicanism in Charleston, 1792–1794 . University of South Carolina Press, 2008. ISBN 978-1-57003-745-0 .
  • Richard K. Murdoch: Citizen Mangourit and the Projected Attack on East Florida in 1794 . The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 14, No. 4 (November 1948), pp. 522-540.
  • RR Palmer: A Revolutionary Republican: MAB Mangourit . The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 9, No. 4 (October 1952), pp. 483-496.
  • Mohammed Rassem, Justin Stagl, Wolfgang Rose: History of State Description: Selected Source Texts, 1456-1813 . Akademie Verlag, 1994, p. 535 ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The date of death is indicated differently. Here is the most authentic statement, taken from: L'Ami de la Religion et du Roi, journal ecclésiastique, politique et littéraire. Volume 59. Paris 1829, p. 91: "[...] il est mort à Paris le 17 février dans sa 77e année."
  2. ↑ Jean Charles Poncelin de la Roche-Tilhac, Conseiller du Roi: Etat des Cours de l'Europe et des Provinces de France. Paris 1786, p. 103.
  3. ↑ encyclopediaoffreemasonry.com .
  4. ↑ Alderson, p. 39.
  5. ↑ Alderson, p. 40.
  6. ^ Alderson, p. 44.
  7. ↑ Alderson, p. 50. German-American Conversations Lexicon: With special consideration for the needs of Germans living in America, 7th volume, edit. by Alexander J. Schem, E. Steiger, New York 1872, p. 568.
  8. ↑ Alderson, p. 52. Pulaski's Cavalry Legion was part of the Continental Army during the American Revolution, formed in 1778 in Baltimore , Maryland .
  9. ^ Alderson, p. 88.
  10. ^ Richard Lee Morton: The William and Mary Quarterly. Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1952, p. 489.
  11. ↑ projects.umwhistory.org .
  12. ↑ Latest Weltkunde, Allgemeine Zeitung, Munich, June 22, 1798, p. 691 (short notes).
  13. ↑ Jenaische Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung of November 16, 1805, p. 321.
  14. ↑ The Hanover State in all its relationships. Depicted in 1803 and 1804. Based on the French for Mangourit. Adolph Schmidt, Hamburg 1805.
  15. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 159.
  16. ↑ fr.wikipedia.org.
  17. ↑ Worldcat.org .
personal data
SURNAME Mangourit, Michel Ange Bernard de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mangourit, Michel-Ange-Bernard; Mangourit du Champ-Duguet, Michel Ange Bernard de; Mangourit, Michel Ange
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French diplomatic agent
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1752
PLACE OF BIRTH Rennes
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 1829
Place of death Paris