Louis-Clair de Beaupoil comte de Saint-Aulaire (9 April 1778, Baguer-Pican

Baguer-Pican

Baguer-Pican is a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department of Brittany in north-western France.-Demographics:Inhabitants of Baguer-Pican are called in French Picanais....

 - 13 November 1854, Paris) was a French politician.

Life

After attending school at the École des ponts et chaussées and polytechnique (Where he graduated in 1794), he served as chamberlain

Chamberlain (office)

A chamberlain is an officer in charge of managing a household. In many countries there are ceremonial posts associated with the household of the sovereign....

 to Napoleon I of France

Napoleon I of France

Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military and political leader during the latter stages of the French Revolution.As Napoleon I, he was Emperor of the French from 1804 to 1815...

, then prefect of the Meuse

Meuse

Meuse is a department in northeast France, named after the River Meuse.-History:Meuse is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790...

 in 1813 then of Haute-Garonne

Haute-Garonne

Haute-Garonne is a department in the southwest of France named after the Garonne river. Its main city is Toulouse.-History:Haute-Garonne is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790. It was created from part of the former province of Languedoc.The...

 in 1814. He was elected to the chambre des députés

Chamber of Deputies of France

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 in 1815, reelected by the Gard

Gard

Gard is a département located in southern France in the Languedoc-Roussillon region.The department is named after the River Gard, although the formerly Occitan name of the River Gard, Gardon, has been replacing the traditional French name in recent decades, even among French speakers.- History...

 département in 1818, 1822 and 1827, but beaten in the elections of 1829. He was then made French ambassador to Rome

Rome

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, Vienna (December 1832 - September 1841) and to London (1841). He was elected a member of the Académie française

Académie française

L'Académie française , also called the French Academy, is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. The Académie was officially established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, the chief minister to King Louis XIII. Suppressed in 1793 during the French Revolution,...

 in 1841.

Works

• Histoire de la Fronde (History of the Fronde
  Fronde
  The Fronde was a civil war in France, occurring in the midst of the Franco-Spanish War, which had begun in 1635. The word fronde means sling, which Parisian mobs used to smash the windows of supporters of Cardinal Mazarin....
  
  , 1827)
• Considération sur la Démocratie (Consideration on Democracy, 1850)
• Les derniers Valois, les Guises et Henri IV (The last of the house of Valois, the Guises and Henry IV
  Henry IV of France
  Henry IV , Henri-Quatre, was King of France from 1589 to 1610 and King of Navarre from 1572 to 1610. He was the first monarch of the Bourbon branch of the Capetian dynasty in France....
  
  , 1854)
• Translation of Goethe's Faust
  Goethe's Faust
  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust is a tragic play in two parts: and . Although written as a closet drama, it is the play with the largest audience numbers on German-language stages...
  
  (1823)

Sources

• Biography on http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/index.asp