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,GNY, See also:JEAN See also:BAPTISTE NOMPERE DE (1756-1834), See also:French politician, was See also:born at See also:Roanne, and entered the See also:navy in 1774
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He fought through the See also:war in See also:America and resigned in 1787
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Elected See also:deputy by the noblesse of Forex to the states-See also:general in 1789, he went over to the third See also:estate on the 21st of See also:June and collaborated in the See also:work of the Constituent See also:Assembly, especially occupying himself with the reorganization of the navy
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A See also:political career seems to have attracted him little; he remained in private See also:life from 1791 to 1799, when See also:Napoleon named him member of the See also:council of See also:state
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From See also:July 18o1 to See also:August 1804 he was See also:ambassador of See also:France at See also:Vienna, and directed with See also:great intelligence the incessant negotiations between the two courts
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In August 1804 Napoleon made him See also:minister of the interior, and in this position, which he held for three years, he proved an See also:administrator of the first See also:order
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In addition to the See also:ordinary charges of his See also:office, he had to See also:direct the recruitment of the See also:army, organize the See also:industrial See also:exhibition of 18o8, and to See also:complete the public See also:works undertaken in See also:Paris and throughout France
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He was devoted to Napoleon, on whom he lavished adulation in his speeches
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In August 1807 the See also:emperor See also:chose him to succeed
Talleyrand as minister for See also:foreign affairs
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He directed the See also:annexation of the Papal States in See also:April 18o8, worked to secure the See also:abdication of See also:
Then he went over to the Bourbons
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During the See also:Hundred Days he again joined Napoleon
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This led to his exclusion by See also: |
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