Dominique-Georges-Frédéric Dufour de Pradt
Bishop of Poitiers (1805–1808) |
Abbé Dominique G. F. de Rion de Prolhiac Dufour or de Fourt de Pradt (23 April 1759 in
) was a French clergyman and ambassador.In 1804 he became a secretary of
archbishop of Mechelen (resigned in 1815). In 1812 he was awarded the position of the French ambassador in Warsaw, preparing the Concordat of 1813. After the Napoleonic wars he published a series of books which portrayed Russia as a "despotic" and "Asiatic" power hungry to conquer Europe.[1]
See also
- Archbishopric of Mechelen-Brussels
References
- ^ Neumann, Iver B. "Europe's post-Cold War memory of Russia: cui bono?" in Memory and power in post-war Europe: studies in the presence of the past ed. Jan-Werner Müller. Cambridge University Press, 2002: p. 133
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