Count Laurent Truguet ( French Laurent Truguet ), full name Laurent Jean-François de Truguet ( Laurent Jean-François de Truguet ; January 10, 1752 , Toulon - December 26, 1839 , ibid.) - French admiral, Minister of the Sea; Ambassador in Madrid. He participated in all wars against the British [1] .
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 Ceremonial portrait of the admiral by Polen Guerin , 1832. | |
| Date of Birth | January 10, 1752 |
| Place of Birth | Toulon , France |
| Date of death | December 26, 1839 (87 years old) |
| A place of death | Toulon , France |
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Mentioned in the novel by Alexander Dumas " White and Blue " [2] .
Biography and career
From an aristocratic family [3] . Being the son of a sailor, for 14 years he entered the Navy. [four]
When the war broke out in England in 1778, Truge took part in it and during the siege of Savannah saved the life of his commander Count d'Estaing . In 1784, he went to Constantinople as commander of a corvette , on which he sailed there. [four]
How the French envoy helped reorganize the Turkish fleet; composed the essay Traité pratique de manoeuvres et de tactique, which was translated into Turkish and used as a guide; concluded a trade agreement with Egypt and Tunisia [4] .
Appointed in 1792 as the head of a squadron in the Mediterranean , Trouge attempted to capture the entire island of Sardinia , but failed in Cagliari due to disobedience of the sailors. Soon after returning to Paris, he was arrested as “suspicious,” and only after 9 Thermidors was released [4] .
The directory in 1795 made him Minister of the Sea. He prepared a naval expedition to Ireland, which failed. After 18 fructidors, he left the ministry and was appointed envoy to Spain, where he procured the release of all the French arrested in the West Indies and languishing in the prisons of the Inquisition. In 1798, he was recalled to France, arrested, and then expelled. He settled in Holland, but the 18 Brumaire coup gave him the opportunity to return to his homeland. [four]
Napoleon appointed him a member of the Council of State (1801) and entrusted him with command of the French-Spanish squadron at Cadix (1802). When in 1804 the tribune offered Napoleon the title of emperor , Truge wrote him a letter advising him not to accept this title but to remain the first consul ; for this he was stripped of all posts under the pretext of omissions. [four]
Only in 1809 he again received command of the squadron in Brest , and then was placed at the head of the fleet in Holland. Having been captured by the Russians in 1813 [1] , he returned to France at the conclusion of peace. Louis XVIII gave him the title of count and again entrusted the command to the squadron in Brest. During the “ Hundred Days ”, Truge kept aloof from political life. In 1819 he was appointed peer . [four]
He was buried in the Paris cemetery of Pere-Lachaise , section 40.
Links
- Truge, Laurent-Jean-Francois // Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Trugge, Laurent-Jean-Francois // The desk dictionary for references on all branches of knowledge: (Reference encyclopedic lexicon), in 3 volumes
- ↑ “... There were seven ministers in the government: police - Cauchon, home affairs - Beneses, navy - Truges, foreign affairs - Charles Delacroix, finance - Ramel, justice - Merlin and military - Petier. Cauchon, Petier, and Beneses stained themselves by going to the royalist camp. Truge was arrogant, unbridled and tried to do everything his own way. Delacroix could not cope with his duties. Only Ramel and Merlin, according to most members of the Directory, that is, Barras, Rebel and Lareveller, should remain in their places. The opposition, for its part, demanded a change of four ministers: Merlin, Ramel, Truge and Delacroix. Barras succumbed to her Truge and Delacroix, but also removed three more who were members of the Council of Five Hundred ... ”CHAPTER XVI. CITIZENS MEMBERS OF THE DIRECTORY
- ↑ The aristocratic prefix “de” was lost during the French Revolution, when its public mention could become a direct road to the scaffold.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Truge, Laurent-Jean-Francois // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.