Jean-Baptiste Nompère De Champagny, Duc De Cadore
Jean-Baptiste Nompère de Champagny, 1st duc de Cadore (4 August 1756 – 3 July 1834) was a French admiral and politician. He was born in Roanne, Loire. Entering the French royal navy in 1774, he fought through the American Revolution, war in America and resigned in 1787. Elected Chamber of Deputies of France, député by the noblesse of Forez to the Estates-General of 1789, Estates-General in 1789, he went over to the Estates General (France), Third Estate on the 21st of June and collaborated in the work of the National Constituent Assembly (France), National Constituent Assembly, especially occupying himself with the reorganization of the navy. Career A political career seems to have attracted him little; he remained in private life from 1791 to 1799, when Napoleon I of France, Napoleon named him member of the council of state. From July 1801 to August 1804 he was ambassador of France at Vienna, and directed with great intelligence the incessant negotiations between the two cour ...
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Cadore
Cadore (; ; or, rarely, ''Cadòria''; or ''Kadober''; Sappada German: ''Kadour'';Dizionario Sappadino-Italiano:
K. ) is a

historical region

in the

Italian

region of

Veneto

, in the northernmost part of the

province of Belluno

bordering on

Austria
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