Charles Joseph, comte Bresson
Charles-Joseph, comte Bresson (27 March 1798 in
Epinal
– 2 November 1847 in Naples) was a French diplomat.
He gained the confidence of King
Duke of Montpensier
. Count Bresson committed suicide in 1847 following family and political pressures.
Life
The son of a chef de division in the ministry of foreign affairs, Bresson soon became destined for a diplomatic career.
.In 1830 he was ordered to notify Switzerland of Louis-Philippe's accession to the French throne, before becoming first secretary to the French embassy in London under
comtesse Le Hon, allegedly fathering her son Léopold (born 1832).[1]
In 1833, he was made chargé d'affaires in
Chambre des pairs
Bresson strongly defended the Paris fortifications project of 1841 in which the king took particular interest.
He was then made ambassador to Madrid and played a major role in the difficult marriage negotiations to marry
grandee of Spain
, 1st class, with the title of 'duke of Sainte-Isabelle'. Bresson himself was recalled to France in 1847, spending a few weeks in London before being appointed ambassador to Naples, a post he had only just taken up when he cut his throat with a razor and died, probably due to domestic troubles.
See also
- List of Ambassadors of France to the United Kingdom
Sources
- (in French) Adolphe Robert & Gaston Cougny, Dictionnaire des Parlementaires français, Paris, Dourloton, 1889
References
- ^ Source : Jean-Marie Rouart, Morny. Un voluptueux au pouvoir, Paris, Gallimard, coll. Folio, 1997, p. 114
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