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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
Mirabeau
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People and characters
* Mirabeau B. Lamar (1798–1859), second President of the Republic of Texas
French nobility
* Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau (1715–1789), French physiocrat
* Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, com ...
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
ministry of foreign affairs In many countries, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is the government department responsible for the state's diplomacy, bilateral, and multilateral relations affairs as well as for providing support for a country's citizens who are abroad. The entit ...
, becoming its sous-directeur then its director of political affairs, but his career was interrupted by his offers of resignation after the revolutions of
1830
It is known in European history as a rather tumultuous year with the Revolutions of 1830 in France, Belgium, Poland, Switzerland and Italy.
Events January–March
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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
Académie française
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in 1878
Main works
*''Essai historique sur les deux Pitt'' (1845-1846), on
Pitt the Elder
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, (15 November 170811 May 1778) was a British statesman of the Whig group who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1766 to 1768. Historians call him Chatham or William Pitt the Elder to distinguish ...
and
Pitt the Younger
William Pitt the Younger (28 May 175923 January 1806) was a British statesman, the youngest and last prime minister of Great Britain (before the Acts of Union 1800) and then first prime minister of the United Kingdom (of Great Britain and Ire ...
*''Histoire de la Restauration'' (20 volumes, 1860-1878), on the
Bourbon Restoration Bourbon Restoration may refer to:
France under the House of Bourbon:
* Bourbon Restoration in France (1814, after the French revolution and Napoleonic era, until 1830; interrupted by the Hundred Days in 1815)
Spain under the Spanish Bourbons:
* ...
*''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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1800 births
1887 deaths
Writers from Paris
19th-century French diplomats
19th-century French historians
Politicians of the July Monarchy
Members of the Académie Française
People of the French Second Republic
People of the Second French Empire
Barons of France
Politicians of the Bourbon Restoration
French male writers
19th-century male writers