Charles Louis Huguet, 1st Marquis of Sémonville
Charles Louis Huguet, 1st Marquis of Sémonville (9 March 1759 – 11 August 1839) was a French diplomat and politician. He was made a count of the First French Empire in 1808, and marquis in 1819.[1]
Biography
Born in
Sardinian frontier.[1] Between 1792 and 1796, he was nominal ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, but he never occupied the post.[citation needed
]
In 1793 he had started with
In 1799
Napoleon Bonaparte, through whose influence his release had been obtained, sent him to as an envoy of the French Consulate to the Hague, in order to consolidate the alliance between France and the Batavian Republic. He was entirely successful, and he is credited with another diplomatic success in the negotiations leading to the "Austrian marriage" between Napoleon and Marie Louise of Habsburg.[1]
Semonville accepted the
Louis XVIII, he took no part in the Hundred Days; later on, he became on overt opponent of the Ultra-royalist policy of Charles X, but tried to save his throne during the July Revolution—with Antoine Maurice Apollinaire d'Argout, he visited the Tuileries Palace and persuaded the king to withdraw his ordinances and to summon the council. He died in Paris 9 years later.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Sémonville, Charles Louis Huguet, Marquis de". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 24 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 631.
- ^ Unterkirchner, Carl (1897). Chronik von Innsbruck (in German). Innsbruck: k. k. Universitäts-Bibliothek in Innsbruck.
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