Paul-Charles-Amable de Bourgoing

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Paul-Charles-Amable de Bourgoing (born December 19, 1791 in Hamburg , † August 16, 1864 in Paris ) was a French diplomat and writer.

Life

Paul-Charles-Amable de Bourgoing was a son of the French diplomat Jean-François de Bourgoing and Marie-Benoîte-Joséphine Prévost de La Croix. First he entered the military career in 1811. Under Napoleon I, as an officer in the Imperial Guard, he took part in the Russian campaign in 1812 and in the war in Germany in the following year and in 1814 as Adjutant Mortiers in France. He was badly wounded in the arm in the Battle of Montmirail (February 11, 1814). For his military services he was made baron of the empire by Napoleon .

After the Restoration of the Bourbons , de Bourgoing entered the diplomatic career like his father. At first he was the secretary of the embassy in Berlin , Munich and Vienna . In 1828 he became the first secretary of the embassy in Saint Petersburg . After the July Revolution of 1830 he acted as envoy in Dresden from 1832 to 1834 and from 1835 in Munich. From there he was named peer in 1841 , after the February Revolution in March 1848 by the provisional French government and temporarily put out of service. From December 1849 to September 1851 he held the post of legation at the Spanish court. During the reign of Napoleon III. became a senator on December 31, 1852 and died in Paris in 1864 at the age of 72.

Of de Bourgoing's numerous writings, Sur les chemins de fer en Allemagne (Paris 1841) and Souvenir d'histoire contemporaine (Paris 1864) are particularly noteworthy. In his novel Le prisonnier en Russie (Paris 1816) he processed some of the experiences of his older brother, Armand de Bourgoing, who distinguished himself as a military man.

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SURNAME Bourgoing, Paul-Charles-Amable de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French diplomat and writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1791
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH August 16, 1864
Place of death Paris