BARANTE, AMABLE GUILLAUME PROSPER BRUGIERE, BARON DE (1782-1866)

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BARANTE, AMABLE GUILLAUME PROSPER BRUGIERE, BARON DE (1782-1866) , French statesman and historian, the son of an advocate, was born at Riom on the loth of June 1782. At the age of sixteen he entered the Ecole Polytechnique at
38o
Paris, and at twenty obtained his first appointment in the civil service. His abilities secured him rapid promotion, and in 18o6 he obtained the post of auditor to the council of state. After being employed in several political missions in Germany, Poland and Spain, during the next two years, he became prefect of Vendee. At the time of the return of

Napoleon

NAPOLEON

I. he held the prefecture of Nantes, and this post he immediately resigned. On the second restoration of the Bourbons he was made councillor of state and secretary-general of the ministry of the interior. After filling for several years the post of director-general of indirect taxes, he was created in 1819 a peer of France and was prominent among the Liberals. After the revolution of July 183o, M. de Barante was appointed

ambassador

AMBASSADOR (also EMBASSADOR, the form sometimes still used in America; from the Fr. ambassadeur, with which compare Ital. ambasciatore and Span. embajador, all variants of the Med. Lat. ambassiator, ambassiator, ambasator, &c., derived from Med. Lat. amba

to Turin, and five years later to St

Petersburg

PETERSBURG

. Throughout the reign of Louis Philippe he remained a supporter of the government; and after the fall of the monarchy, in February 1848, he withdrew from political affairs and retired to his country seat in Auvergne. Shortly before his retirement he had been made grand

cross

CROSS

of the Legion of Honour. Barante's Histoire des ducs de Bourgogne de la maison de

Valois

, which appeared in a

series

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

of volumes between 1824 and 1828, procured him immediate admission to the French

Academy

ACADEMY, GREEK
ACADEMY, ROYAL

. Its narrative qualities, and purity of style, won high praise from the romantic school, but it exhibits a lack of the

critical

CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

sense and of scientific scholarship. Amongst his other literary works are a Tableau de la litterature francaise au dixhuitieme siecle, of which several editions were published; Des communes et de l'aristocratie (1821); a French

translation

TRANSLATION

of the dramatic works of Schiller; Questions constitutionnelles (185o); Histoire de la Convention Nationale, which appeared in six volumes between 1851 and 1853; Histoire du Directoire de la Republique francaise (1855); Etudes historiques et biographiques (1857); La Vie politique de M. Royer-Collard (1861). The version of Hamlet for Guizot's Shakespeare was his

work

WORK

. He died on the 22nd of November 1866.
His Souvenirs were published by his grandson (Paris, 189o-99). See also the article by Guizot in the Revue des deux Mondes, July 1867.

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