Jean Baptiste Gaspard Roux de Rochelle (26 March 1762 – March 1849) was a French geographer, writer, poet and
ambassador
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to the U.S.
Ambassador
Born in
Lons-le-Saunier
Lons-le-Saunier () is a Communes of France, commune and capital of the Jura (department), Jura Department, eastern France.
Geography
The town is in the heart of the Revermont region, at the foot of the first plateau of the Jura massif. The Jur ...
, Roux de Rochelle was head of division at the
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 ...
, then was appointed
Minister Plenipotentiary of France to
Hamburg from 1826 to 1830, then to the
United States in
Washington, D.C. from 1830 to 1831.
Geographer
He was a member of several
learned
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and
literary societies, including the
Société de Géographie (of which he was for the third time the president of the Central Commission) and of the Société philotechniqne.
Roux de Rochelle died in Paris at approximatively age of 87.
Writer
He wrote several geographical and historical works.
* ''Les Trois âges, ou les Jeux olympiques, l'Amphithéâtre et la Chevalerie'', poems in VI chants, with notes. Paris, F. Didot, 1816.
*''Recueil de voyages et de mémoires'' including ''Voyages de Marco Polo'', Paris, 1824
* ''La Byzanciade'', poem (epic, in XIV chants). Paris, F. Didot et fils , 1822.
* ''Lettres des États-Unis'', 1835
* ''Les États-Unis, (Histoire de ces États)''. Paris, F. Didot fr., 1836.
* ''Histoire du Régiment de Champagne'', F. Didot, Paris, 1839
* ''Épopée de Fernan Cortes''
* ''Villes Anséatiques'', Firmin Didot, Paris, 1844
* ''Histoire d'Italie'',
''Histoire d'Italie''
on WorldCat F. Didot, Paris, 1847
References
External links
Portrait peint de Roux de RochelleJoseph Marie Quérard, ''La France littéraire: ou Dictionnaire bibliographique des savants'', Firmin Didot, Paris, 1836.Recueil de voyages et mémoires
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Ambassadors of France to the United States
French geographers
19th-century geographers
19th-century French historians
19th-century French writers
19th-century French poets
People from Lons-le-Saunier
1762 births
1849 deaths