Louis Napoléon Lannes

Louis Auguste Napoléon Lannes, duc de Montebello ( born July 30, 1801 in Paris, † July 19, 1874 ) was a French statesman and diplomat.

Napoléon, eldest son of Marshal Jean Lannes from his marriage to Louise -Antoinette de Guéheneuc, received in 1815 by Louis XVIII. the peerage, entered after the revolution of 1830 in the civil service, went as Minister Plenipotentiary to Sweden and later in the same capacity in Switzerland.

On April 1, 1839, he took over temporarily the State Department, but resigned it already on 12 April at the Marshal Soult from. After that he went as ambassador to Naples, was later Secretary of the Navy in François Guizot Cabinet and in 1849 for the department of Marne elected to the Legislature, where he voted with the majority.

From 1858 to 1864 he was French ambassador in St. Petersburg. In 1864 he was appointed Senator and died on 19 July 1874 in Paris.

  • Minister of Foreign Affairs (France)
  • Senator (France)
  • French diplomat
  • Member of the Legion of Honour ( Grand Cross )
  • Frenchman
  • Born in 1801
  • Died in 1874
  • Man
  • Member of the National Assembly ( French Second Republic)
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