Claude of Camps of Rosamel

Claude Charles Marie of Camps of Rosamel is an admiral and French politician born with the castle of Rosamel with Frencq (Pas-de-Calais) the June 24th 1774 and died in Paris the March 27th 1848.

Biography

Claude de Rosamel entered the navy at 16 years and began like pilotin on board a building coaster from the English Channel. Then it passed to the service of the State and obtained, with the contest January 1792, the rank of candidate of navy. It took share in this quality with the constant combat in June 1794 by the admiral Villaret de Joyeuse countered the English fleet. Teach vessel in 1797, it was briefly held in England during the year 1798 and returned to France. It was named Lieutenant (1802), Commander (1808) and frequently held the sea.

In 1811, Pomone , which it ordered, going of Corfou to Trieste, met three English frigates and, after a terrible combat, was démâtée and forced to bring its house. Rosamel, seriously wounded with the head, was again made prisoner and remained three years in England. Returned into France after the Peace of Amiens, it was translated with Toulon in front of a Conseil of war which examined its control, considered it honourable and released it.

Promoted Captain in July 1814, Rosamel was, the next month, made knight of Saint-Louis and the Légion of honor. Major of the marine with Cherbourg in 1815, it took again the sea in 1817 and was made Rear-admiral in October 1823 and large Officer of the Legion of Honor on October 28th, 1823. It ordered naval division charged to supervise the coasts of Catalonia during the operation directed by the duke of Angouleme against “constitutional” Spanish then the naval division of the South Seas (Western coasts of South America) and served in 1828 in Raising under the orders of the admiral de Rigny. It was then attached to the forwarding of Algiers, under the orders of the admiral Duperré.

In November 1830, it was named Maritime police chief of Toulon. Called with the council of admiralty at the end of 1833, promoted Vice-admiral on March 1st 1834, it was elected appointed the June 24th 1834 in the 1st electoral college of the Var (Toulon). It sat in the center and opina for the ministry with the preserving majority.

The September 6th 1836, it became Minister for the Navy and Colonies in the first ministry Molé and remained it in the second ministry Molé until the March 30th 1839. Its voters renewed their confidence to him the October 15th 1836, the November 4th 1837 and the March 2nd 1839; the same day, he had also been elected by the 7th college of the Puy-de-Dôme (Ambert), following what he chose Toulon. But it did not return to the Palate-Bourbon because it was high with the peerage the March 7th 1839.

During its passage to the government, it reformed the organization of the crews of line and created the sailors gunners and of the naval artillery schools intended for their instruction with Brest and Toulon. Its administration was also announced by the forwarding of Midsummer's Day d' Ulloa and the scientific voyages of the Astrolabe , Venus and Artémise .

Rosamel, that Charles de Rémusat describes as “idiotic franc”, left the ministry poorer than it there had not entered, there having spent all his economies, and died by leaving with his children only one modest heritage.

References

Sources

Adolphe Robert and Gaston Cougny, Dictionary of the French Members of Parliament , Paris, Dourloton, 1889

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