Jean Baptiste Ternant

Jean Baptiste Ternant, chevalier ( born December 12, 1751 Damvillers, † November 15, 1833 in Paris) was a French military and diplomat.

From August 1791 to May 1793 he was the successor of the dismissed at the request of the American government Eléonore François Elie Moustier French Ambassador to the United States. Here he was noticeably more popular than its predecessor, even as he had fought in the ranks of the 1778-1783 Marquis de Lafayette on the part of the Americans in the Revolutionary War. In Paris, however, gave his diplomatic mission, the less attention since the country fell deeper and deeper into the turmoil of the revolution. After the abolition of the monarchy Ternant was recalled by the ruling Girondins from his post and was succeeded by Edmond -Charles Genêt.

The Smithsonian secures an oil portrait Ternants, painted by Charles Willson Peale in 1781.