Louis de Beaupoil de Saint-Aulaire
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Louis-Clair de Beaupoil comte de Saint-Aulaire (9 April 1778, in Baguer-Pican – 13 November 1854, in Paris) was a French politician.
Life
After attending school at the École des ponts et chaussées and polytechnique (from which he graduated in 1794), he served as chamberlain to Napoleon I of France, then prefect of the Meuse in 1813 and of Haute-Garonne in 1814. He was elected to the Chambre des Députés in 1815, and reelected from the Gard département in 1818, 1822 and 1827, but beaten in the elections of 1829. After that, he was appointed French ambassador to Rome (1832–1831), Vienna (1832–1841), and London (1841). He was elected a member of the Académie Française in 1841.
Works
- Histoire de la Fronde (History of the Fronde, 1827)
- Considération sur la Démocratie (Consideration on Democracy, 1850)
- Les derniers Valois, les Guises et Henri IV (The last of the house of Valois, the Guises and Henry IV, 1854)
- Translation of Goethe's Faust (1823)
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- 1778 births
- 1854 deaths
- 19th-century French diplomats
- 19th-century French historians
- 19th-century French male writers
- 19th-century French translators
- Ambassadors of France to the Austrian Empire
- Ambassadors of France to the Holy See
- Ambassadors of France to the United Kingdom
- Counts of the First French Empire
- French political writers
- Members of the Académie Française
- Members of the Chamber of Deputies of the Bourbon Restoration
- Members of the Chamber of Peers of the Bourbon Restoration
- Members of the Chamber of Peers of the July Monarchy
- Members of Parliament for Gard
- Members of Parliament for Meuse
- People from Ille-et-Vilaine
- Prefects of France
- Prefects of Haute-Garonne
- Prefects of Meuse (department)
- Translators of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
