Michel Ange Bernard Mangourit
Michel Ange Bernard de Mangourit du Champ - Duguet (* August 21, 1752 in Rennes, † February 17, 1829 in Paris), also briefly Michel Ange Mangourit, was a French diplomatic agent, ambassador to the United States of America 1796-1800, journalist and writer.
Life
He was the son of Bernard de Mangourit and Marguerite - Angélique Cairgnon de La Touche.
Mangourit was first officer, then from 1777 criminal judge ( lieutenant criminel ) at the Higher Regional Court in Rennes. He was also a Freemason (co-founder of the lodge " L' Egalite " in Rennes) and supporters of the Enlightenment. In 1777 he was a criminal judge. He married on August 25, 1777 Louise de La Bidard Morini ( she died on 26 June 1807 in Paris). In 1787 he was commissioner of the provincial assembly. In 1798 he went to Paris and edited and distributed in Brittany, Le Journal Héraut de la Nation. In that year he was appointed by the Board to the Resident of the French Republic in the Valais. He was present at the storming of the Bastille.
In 1792 he was appointed French Consul General in Charleston, South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia. He was concerned by the Haitian Revolution with Haitian refugees. He was instrumental in the establishment of the French patriotic society and the beginning of political parties. Mangourit worked with Edmond -Charles Genêt as ambassador in Charleston. He used relations with the American General William Moultrie ( 1731-1805 ). He went to Savannah, where he met Claudius Bert de Majann, a veteran of Pulaski's Legion. On March 13, 1794, he lived in the destruction of the statue of William Pitt, Sr..
Mangourit was in the reign of the National Convention of November 3, 1794 to November 21, 1794 Minister of Foreign Affairs. From February to August 1796 he was Secretary of Legation at the Frankish embassy in Madrid and has been appointed as Ambassador to the United States in the same year.
The Allgemeine Zeitung in Munich announced on June 22, 1798: " Go to the legation secretary and business support in Naples Mangourit, formerly resident in Valais, appointed. "
He worked in 1801 with General Jean -Charles Monnier ( 1758-1816 ) in Ancona and was used for secret missions. The Jenaische general Literatur-Zeitung writes in 1805:
1803 followed Mangourit the French troops into the Electorate of Hanover, to his government about the conditions to report. He sought advice from, among other things Kommerzrat Christian Ludwig Albrecht Patje and the Secret Chancellery Secretary Ernst Brandes and wrote at the end of a thick book about his clientele trip to Hannover.
Michel Ange Mangourit was an ardent apostle of Freemasonry and founder of the Society of Antiquaries of France.
Works
- Défense d' Ancona, C. Pougens, Paris 10 (1802 )
- Voyage en Hanovre, fait dans les Années 1803 et 1804 1805 Travels in Hanover, falling on the years 1803 and 1804, R. Phillips, London 1806