Charles-Louis-Gaspard-Gabriel de Salviac, baron de Viel Castel (14 October 1800, in Paris – 6 October 1887, in Paris) was a French historian and diplomat. He was a great-nephew of

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via his mother, and the elder brother of

Horace de Viel-Castel Marc-Roch-Horace de Salviac, comte de Viel-Castel, known as Horace de Viel-Castel (16 August 1802 Paris – 1 October 1864), was an art lover and collector, and director of the Louvre until 1863. A Bonapartist, he staunchly supported Napoleon III. ...

Biography

In 1818 he entered the diplomatic service. In 1829 he returned to France's

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, becoming its sous-directeur then its director of political affairs, but his career was interrupted by his offers of resignation after the revolutions of

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and

1848 1848 is historically famous for the wave of revolutions, a series of widespread struggles for more liberal governments, which broke out from Brazil to Hungary; although most failed in their immediate aims, they significantly altered the polit ...

, which he made final after the coup of 1851. He was elected a member of the

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in 1878

Main works

*''Essai historique sur les deux Pitt'' (1845-1846), on

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and

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*''Histoire de la Restauration'' (20 volumes, 1860-1878), on the

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*''Essai sur le théâtre espagnol'' (2 volumes, 1882), on Spanish theatre *''Histoire de la Restauration''

External links

*
Biography on the Académie française site
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