Dupuy De Lôme (A759)
Dupuy de Lôme may refer to: * Enrique Dupuy de Lôme (1851–1904), Spanish ambassador to the United States * Henri Dupuy de Lôme Stanislas Charles Henri Dupuy de Lôme (; 15 October 18161 February 1885) was a French naval architect. He was the son of a naval officer and was born in Ploemeur near Lorient, Brittany, in western France. He was educated at the École Polytechn ...

Enrique Dupuy De Lôme
Enrique Dupuy de Lôme y Paulín (August 23, 1851 – July 1, 1904) was a Spanish ambassador to the United States. In the De Lôme Letter, he mocked U.S. President William McKinley, attacked McKinley's policies, and regarded McKinley as a weak president. Cuban rebels intercepted the letter, and on February 9, 1898, the letter was published in U.S. newspapers. That contributed to the Spanish–American War, which started on April 25, 1898. Early life Dupuy de Lôme was born in Valencia, the eldest son of Santiago Luis Dupuy de Lôme Guillemain and Isidra Paulín de la Pana de Belmonte. His father's family had moved to Spain from France after the French Revolution to work in the silk industry. His father settled in Valencia, where he was a politician, and silk and wine magnate. His brother Carlos (1853–1921) was a silk industrialist and politician who was the Spanish consul in Paraguay and Bolivia. His brother Federico (1855–1924) was a military officer and politician. Fr ...
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