Amédée, marquis de Pastoret (2 January 1791 – 18 May 1857) was a French writer and politician.
Born in Paris, he was the son of marquis Emmanuel de Pastoret, parliamentarian and minister. He was sent to Rome in 1809 secretary general to the minister of the interior of the provisional government. He became a
legitimist and refused to swear loyalty to
Louis-Philippe of France
Louis Philippe (6 October 1773 – 26 August 1850) was King of the French from 1830 to 1848, and the penultimate monarch of France.
As Louis Philippe, Duke of Chartres, he distinguished himself commanding troops during the Revolutionary War ...
in 1830. He rallied to
Louis-Napoléon and was made a senator of the
Second French Empire
The Second French Empire (; officially the French Empire, ), was the 18-year Empire, Imperial Bonapartist regime of Napoleon III from 14 January 1852 to 27 October 1870, between the French Second Republic, Second and the French Third Republic ...
on 31 December 1852. He was a patron of
Ingres
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres ( , ; 29 August 1780 – 14 January 1867) was a French Neoclassicism, Neoclassical Painting, painter. Ingres was profoundly influenced by past artistic traditions and aspired to become the guardian of academic ...
, commissioning several of his works such as ''
The Dauphin's Entry Into Paris
''The Dauphin's Entry Into Paris'' is an oil-on-canvas painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, executed in 1821. It is now in the Wadsworth Atheneum collection in Hartford, Connecticut.
It belongs to the painter's Troubador style period and ...
''. He died in Paris.
Works
* ''Les Troubadours'', poem (1813)
* ''Des moyens mis en usage par Henri IV pour s'assurer la couronne'' (1815 and 1819)
* ''Les Normands en Italie ou Salerne délivrée'', poem (1818)
* ''Sur Monseigneur le duc de Berry'' (1820)
* ''Le duc de Guise à Naples'', novel (1825)
* ''Récits historiques'' (1826)
*''Le Duc de Guise à Naples, ou Mémoires sur les révolutions de ce royaume en 1647 et 1648'', Paris, Urbain Canel, in 8°, 318 p. (1828) ;
*''Histoire de la chute de l'empire grec, 1400-1480,'' Paris, A. Levavasseur, Urbain Canel, in 8°, 357 p''.'' (1829)
* ''Claire Catalanzi ou La Corse en 1736'' (1838)
*''Instructions à l'usage des voyageurs en Orient. Histoire. Les Croisades''. Paris, Imprimerie impériale, 1 vol. in 8°, II+138 pp. (1856).
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1791 births
1857 deaths
Politicians from Paris
Writers from Paris
Members of the Chamber of Peers of the July Monarchy
French senators of the Second Empire
Grand Officers of the Legion of Honour