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BASSVILLE, or BASSEVILLE, See also:NICOLAS See also:JEAN HUGON DE (d. 1793) , See also:French journalist and diplomatist, was See also:born at See also:Abbeville on the 7th of See also:February 1753. He was trained for the priesthood, taught See also:theology in a provincial See also:seminary and then went to See also:Paris. Here in 1784 he published Elements de mythologie and some poems, which brought him into See also:notice. On the recommendation of the See also:prince of See also:Conde he became See also:tutor to two See also:young Americans travelling in See also:Europe. With them he visited See also:Berlin, made the acquaintance there of See also:Mirabeau, and became a member of the Berlin See also:Academy Royal. At the outbreak of the Revolution he turned to journalism, becoming editor of the Mercure' inter-See also:national. Then, through the Girondist See also:minister See also:Lebrun-Tondu, he entered the See also:diplomatic service, went in May, 1792, as secretary of See also:legation to See also:Naples and was shortly afterwards sent, without See also:official status, to See also:Rome. Here his conduct was anything but diplomatic. He at once announced himself as the See also:protector of the extreme See also:Jacobins in Rome, demanded the See also:expulsion of the French emigres who had taken See also:refuge there, including the "demoiselles See also:Capet," and ordered the fleur-de-lys on the See also:escutcheon of the French See also:embassy to be replaced by a picture of See also:Liberty painted by a French See also:art student. He talked at large of the "See also:purple geese of the Capitol" and met the remonstrances of See also:Cardinal Zelada, the papal secretary of. See also:state, with insults. This enraged the See also:Roman populace; a See also:riot See also:broke out on the 13th of See also:January 1793, and Bassville, who was See also:driving with his See also:family to the Corso, was dragged from his See also:carriage and so roughly handled that he died.

The affair was magnified in the See also:

Convention into a deliberate See also:murder of the " representative of the See also:Republic " by the See also:pope's orders. In 1797 by an See also:article of the treaty of See also:Tolentino the papal See also:government agreed to pay See also:compensation to Bassville's family. Among his writings we may' also mention Memoires historiques, critiques et politiques sur la Revolution de See also:France (Paris 1790; See also:English trans. See also:London, 1790). See F. See also:Masson, See also:Les Diplomates de la Revolution (Paris, 1882); Silvagni, La See also:Corte e la Societd See also:romana See also:nei secoli XVIII. e XIX. (See also:Florence, 1881).

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