Hugues-Bernard Maret

Hugues-Bernard Maret , duke of Bassano, born the July 22nd 1763 with Dijon and dead the May 13rd 1839 with Paris, is a diplomatic politician and French, Pair of France, member of the French Academy and Academy of Science morals and political, ambassador secretary of Bonaparte after his return of Egypt.

Biography

Wire of a doctor of Dijon, Hugues Maret, he is lawyer at the Parliament of Burgundy, then he settles in Paris in 1788.

Fascinated by the events of the beginning of the Revolution, it follows with attention the debates of the constituent Assembly, of which it publishes an objective summary under the name of Bulletin of the Parliament which is inserted in the Universal Monitor . Jacobin, it is one of the founders of the Club of Breaking into leaf the. Protected by Pierre Henri Helene Marie Mowed, said Lebrun-Mowed, then Foreign Minister, it is sent on mission to London. In July 1793, it is named ambassador with Naples. While crossing the Piedmont to go to Naples, it is made prisoner with Novate Mezzola by the Austrians at the same time as Charles-Louis Huguet de Sémonville. It is released after a captivity very testing. In 1795, they are exchanged against Marie Therese de France, girl of Louis XVI. Negotiator with Lille with the Great Britain, it is put the variation until the return of Egypt of Napoleon Bonaparte.

He marries in 1801 Marie Madeleine Lejeas, sister of Antoine Martin count Lejeas, director of the contributions.

Appointed Secretary of State under the Consulate, Foreign Minister of 1811 with 1813, Napoleon I {{er}} the fact count of the Empire the May 3rd 1809, then Duke of Bassano the August 15th of the same year (title extinguished in 1906). Its armorial bearings are: tiercé out of stake: of gold, mouths and of money; half-compartment of mouths to the winged gold hand; writing with a money sword; with the frank district of the counts ministers: of azure to the head of lion torn off from money; with the chief of the dukes of the Empire: money star mouths sown, stitching. On the money whole to the granite column, summoned of a civic column of oak to the naturalness, and accosted of two lions the fourchée tail, faced and against crawling of mouths.

The November 19th 1831, it was created Pair France in the batch of thirty-six pars for life intended to allow the adoption the Upper House of the bill abolishing the Hérédité of peerage.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord said of him: “There is only one person stupider than Mr. Maret, it is the duke of Bassano. ”

He is elected in 1803 with the French Academy where he occupies the tenth armchair while succeeding Jean-François of Saint-Lambert. In 1816, it is excluded from the Academy where Joseph Henri Joachim Lainé replaces it. In 1829, after its back in favor, when two formerly excluded academicians (Antoine-Vincent Arnault and Charles-Guillaume Etienne) are re-elected members of the Academy, François Andrieux proposes in Maret to be represented. He refuses. He is however elected member of the Academy of Science morals and political in 1832.

He dies in his residence 60, rue Saint Lazare (9th district); its religious funeral is celebrated in the church Notre-Dame de Lorette.

Marie Madeleine Lejéas, Maret wife, duchess of Bassano (1780-1827) and Hugues Bernard Maret, duke of Bassano, are buried with the Cimetière of the Father-Lachaise in Paris (division 31).

Sources

External bonds

  • Biographical note of the French Academy
  • more complete Biographical note

-----

Random links:Final Fantasy XI | Melanocharitidae | Luna 6 | Marc-Alfred Pellerin | Wolfgang Doerner | Paume_asiatique_rapide