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See also:HAUTRRIVE, See also:ALEXANDRE See also:MAURICE See also:BLANC DE LANAUTTE, See also:COMTE D' (1754-1830), See also:French statesman and diplomatist, was See also:born at Aspres (Hautes-Alpes) on the 14th of See also:April 1754, and was educated at See also:Grenoble, where he became a See also:professor. Later he held a similar position at See also:Tours, and there he attracted the See also:attention of the due de See also:Choiseul, who invited him to visit him at Chanteloup. Hauterive thus came in contact with the See also:great men who visited the See also:duke, and one of these, the comte de Choiseul-Goiffier, on his See also:appointment as See also:ambassador to See also:Constantinople in 1784 took him with him. Hauterive was enriched for a See also:time by his See also:marriage with a widow, Madame de Marchais, but was ruined by the Revolution. In 1790 he applied for and received the See also:post of See also:consul at New See also:York. Under the Consulate, however, he was accused of See also:embezzlement and re-called; and, though the See also:charge was proved to be false, was not reinstated. In 1798, after trying his See also:hand at farming in See also:America, Hauterive was appointed to a post in the French See also:foreign See also:office. In this capacity he made a sensation by his L'Etat de la See also:France a la fin de See also:Pan VIII (1800), which he had been commissioned by See also:Bonaparte to draw up, as a manifesto to foreign nations, after the coup d'etat of the 18th See also:Brumaire. This won him the confidence of Bonaparte, and he was henceforth employed in See also:drawing up many of the more important documents. In 1805 he was made a councillor of See also:state and member of the See also:Legion of See also:Honour, and between 1805 and 1813 he was more than once temporarily See also:minister of foreign affairs. He attempted, though vainly, to use his See also:influence to moderate See also:Napoleon's policy, especially in the See also:matter of See also:Spain and the treatment of the See also:pope. In 1805 a difference of See also:opinion with Talleyrand on the question of the See also:Austrian See also:alliance, which Hauterive favoured, led to his withdrawal from the See also:political See also:side of the See also:ministry of foreign affairs, and he was appointed keeper of the archives of the same See also:department. In this capacity he did very useful See also:work, and after the Restoration continued in this post at the See also:request of the due de See also:Richelieu, his work being recognized by his See also:election as a member of the See also:Academic See also:des See also:Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in 1820. He died at See also:Paris on the 28th of See also:July 1830.
There is a detailed See also:account of Hauterive, with considerable extracts from his See also:correspondence with Talleyrand, in the Biographic universelie by A. F. Artand de Montor, who published a See also:separate See also:life in 1831. Criticisms of his Etat de la France appeared in See also:Germany and See also:England by F. von See also:Gentz (Von dem politischen Zustande, 18o1). and by T. B. See also: Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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