Guillaume de Bonne-Carrere (13 February 1754 – 1825), French
diplomat, was born at
Muret
Muret (; in Gascon Occitan ''Murèth'') is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department, of which it is a subprefecture, in the Occitanie region of southwestern France. Its inhabitants are called ''Muretains''.
It is an outer suburb of the ci ...
in
Languedoc
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Most of its territory is now contained in the modern-day region of Occitanie in Southern France. Its capital city was Toulouse. It had an area of approximately ...
. He began his career in the army, but soon entered the diplomatic service under
Vergennes.
A friend of
Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau and of
Charles François Dumouriez, he became very active in the
French Revolution
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, and Dumouriez re-established for him the title of director-general of the department of foreign affairs (March 1792). He remained at the ministry, preserving the habits of the diplomacy of the old regime, until December 1792, when he was sent to
Belgium
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as agent of the republic, but he was involved in the treason of Dumouriez and was arrested on 2 April 1793. To justify himself, he published an account of his conduct from the beginning of the Revolution. He was freed from prison in July 1794.
Napoleon
Napoleon Bonaparte ; it, Napoleone Bonaparte, ; co, Napulione Buonaparte. (born Napoleone Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military commander and political leader who ...
did not trust him, and gave him only some unimportant missions.
After 1815 Bonne-Carrere retired into private life, directing a profitable business in public carriages between
Paris
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and
Versailles
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.
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1754 births
1825 deaths
18th-century French diplomats
People of the French Revolution