Louis-Guillaume Otto

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Louis-Guillaume Otto
Comte de Mosloy
Duchy of Baden
Died9 November 1817(1817-11-09) (aged 63)
Paris, France
NationalityFrench

Louis-Guillaume Otto, comte de Mosloy (7 August 1754 – 9 November 1817) was a Germano-French diplomat.

Life

A student of

Modern Languages and Law
.

He entered the French diplomatic service, becoming

United States of America. Otto fell for Anne Shippen and courted her with letters. Her mother was keen but her father married her to another.[1]

While in

Congress. While in the United States he authored reports analyzing the U.S. Constitution
and the prospects for its ratification.

Watercolor by Charles Willson Peale, 1822

In March 1787, Otto married Elizabeth, daughter of Peter Van Brugh Livingston; she died in December 1787.[2] Otto was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1787.[3]

He returned to France at the end of 1792, and shortly afterwards the Revolutionary Government Committee of Public Safety appointed him as the first Head of the Political Division for Foreign Affairs. However, the fall of the

31 May 1793
led to Otto's dismissal and arrest. He then came close to being guillotined, but survived and followed Abbot Sieyès to Berlin as Secretary to his Legation, remaining there as Chargé d'affaires after Sieyès joined the French Directory. A letter written by him on 6 July 1799 seems to be the earliest recorded use of the term Industrial Revolution in French; in the letter, he announces that that revolution has begun in France.[4] He was posted to
Peace of Amiens
.

In 1803, he was posted to the

Bavarian court of the Prince-Elector Maximilian at Munich
. In 1805, his influence on the Elector impressed
Légion d'honneur
. In 1810 he was despatched as French Ambassador to Vienna,[5] where he negotiated the conditions for Napoleon's second marriage with Archduchess Marie-Louise. Napoleon rewarded Otto by creating him comte de Mosloy in late 1810. During his residence in
State Chancellor of the Austrian Empire
), who had also been tutored by Professor von Koch.

Otto's tomb in Paris

The Count was excluded from politics during the

Second Restoration, since he had served as Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs from 24 March until 22 June during the Hundred Days
.

Following his death in 1817 Otto was buried in the 37th division at

Cimetière du Père-Lachaise
in Paris.

Coat of arms

Blazon: "Écartelé, aux 1 et 4 fascé d'or et de sable ; au 2 d'argent à une loutre de sable issante d'une rivière d'azur engoulant un poisson d'or; au 3 de gueules au lion léopardé d'or tenant un coeur d'argent" (in French)

See also

  • List of Ambassadors of France to the United Kingdom

References

  1. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/69341. Retrieved 2 March 2019. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  2. ^ Julia Post Mitchell; Julia Post Mitchell Kunkle (1916). St. Jean de Crèvecoeur. Columbia University Press.
  3. ^ "Comte Louis G. Otto". American Philosophical Society Member History. American Philosophical Society. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
  4. LCCN 95025377
    .
  5. ^ www.ambafrance-at.org Archived 1 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine

External links

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