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HYDE DE NEUVILLE, JEAN GUILLAUME, BARON

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HYDE DE See also:NEUVILLE, See also:JEAN See also:GUILLAUME, See also:BARON (1776- 18J7), See also:French politician, was See also:born at La Charite-sur-See also:Loire (See also:Nievre) on the 24th of See also:January 1776, the son of Guillaume Hyde, who belonged to an See also:English See also:family which had emigrated with the Stuarts after the See also:rebellion of 1745. He was only seven-teen when he successfully defended a See also:man denounced by See also:Fouche before the revolutionary tribunal of See also:Nevers. From 1793 onwards he was an active See also:agent of the exiled princes; he took See also:part in the Royalist rising in See also:Berry in 1796, and after the coup d'etat of the 18th See also:Brumaire (See also:November 9, 1799) tried to persuade See also:Bonaparte to recall the Bourbons. An See also:accusation of complicity in the infernal See also:machine See also:conspiracy of 1800–18or was speedily retracted, but Hyde de Neuville retired to the See also:United States, only to return after the Restoration. He was sent by See also:Louis XVIII. to See also:London to endeavour to persuade the See also:British See also:government to See also:transfer See also:Napoleon to a remoter and safer See also:place of See also:exile than the isle of See also:Elba, but the negotiations were cut See also:short by the See also:emperor's return to See also:France in See also:March 1815. In January 1816 de Neuville became French See also:ambassador at See also:Washington, where he negotiated a commercial treaty. On his return in 1821 he declined the See also:Constantinople See also:embassy, and in November 1822 was elected See also:deputy for See also:Cosne. Shortly afterwards he was appointed French ambassador at See also:Lisbon, where his efforts to oust British See also:influence culminated, in connexion with the coup d'etat of Dom See also:Miguel (See also:April 30, 1824), in his See also:suggestion to the Portuguese See also:minister to invite the armed intervention of See also:Great See also:Britain. It was assumed that this would be refused, in view of the loudly proclaimed British principle of non-intervention, and that France would then be in a position to undertake a See also:duty that Great Britain had declined. The See also:scheme See also:broke down, however, owing to the attitude of the reactionary party in the government of See also:Paris, which disapproved of the Portuguese constitution. This destroyed his influence at Lisbon, and he returned to Paris to take his seat in the Chamber of Deputies. In spite of his pronounced Royalism, he now showed Liberal tendencies, opposed the policy of See also:Villele's See also:cabinet, and in 1828 became a member of the moderate See also:administration of See also:Martignac as minister of marine.

In this capacity he showed active sympathy with the cause of See also:

Greek See also:independence. During the See also:Polignac See also:ministry (1829–183o) he was again in opposition, being a See also:firm upholder of the See also:charter; but after the revolution of See also:July 1830 he entered an all but solitary protest against the exclusion of the legitimate See also:line of the Bourbons from the See also:throne, and resigned his seat. He died in Paris on the 28th of May 18J7. His Afemoires et souvenirs (3 vols., 1888), compiled from his notes by his nieces, the vicomtesse de Bardonnet and the baronne Laurenceau, are of great See also:interest for the Revolution and the Restoration.

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