See also:COUNT CARLO See also:ANDREA POZZO DI BORGO (1764-1842)
, See also:Russian diplomatist, was See also:born at Alata, near See also:Ajaccio, of a See also:noble Corsican See also:family, on the 8th of See also:March 1764, some four years before the cession of the See also:island to See also:France
.
He was educated
at See also:Pisa, and in See also:early See also:life was closely associated with See also:Napoleon and See also:Joseph See also:Bonaparte, the two families being at that See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time closely allied in politics
.
Pozzo was one of the two delegates sent to the See also:National See also:Assembly in See also:Paris to demand the See also:political See also:incorporation of See also:Corsica in France, and was subsequently one of the Corsican deputies to the Legislative Assembly, where he sat on the benches of the right until the events of See also:August 1792
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On his safe return to Corsica he was warmly received by See also:Paoli, but found himself in opposition to the Bonaparte See also:brothers, who were now veering to the Jacobin party
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Under the new constitution Pozzo was elected procureur-See also:general-See also:syndic, that is, See also:chief of the See also:civil See also:government, while Paoli commanded the See also:army
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With Paoli he refused to obey a See also:summons to the See also:bar of the See also:Convention, and the definite See also:breach with the Bonaparte family, who actively supported the revolutionary authorities, See also:dates from this time
.
Eventually Paoli and Pozzo accepted See also:foreign help, and from 1794 to 1796, during the See also:English See also:protectorate of Corsica, Pozzo was See also:president of the See also:council of See also:state under See also:Sir See also:- GILBERT
- GILBERT (KINGSMILL) ISLANDS
- GILBERT (or GYLBERDE), WILLIAM (1544-1603)
- GILBERT, ALFRED (1854– )
- GILBERT, ANN (1821-1904)
- GILBERT, GROVE KARL (1843– )
- GILBERT, J
- GILBERT, JOHN (1810-1889)
- GILBERT, MARIE DOLORES ELIZA ROSANNA [" LOLA MONTEZ "] (1818-1861)
- GILBERT, NICOLAS JOSEPH LAURENT (1751–1780)
- GILBERT, SIR HUMPHREY (c. 1539-1583)
- GILBERT, SIR JOSEPH HENRY (1817-1901)
- GILBERT, SIR WILLIAM SCHWENK (1836– )
Gilbert Elliot
.
When Napoleon sent troops to occupy the island he was excepted from the general See also:amnesty, and took See also:refuge in See also:Rome, but the See also:French authorities demanded his See also:expulsion, and gave orders for his See also:arrest in See also:northern See also:Italy
.
After a See also:short stay in See also:London he accompanied in 1798 Sir Gilbert Elliot (now become See also:Lord See also:Minto) on an See also:embassy to See also:Vienna, where he lived for six years and was well received in political circles
.
Hatred of Napoleon was his dominant See also:passion, and even as an See also:- EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap, consul, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)
exile of no See also:official See also:standing he was recognized as a dangerous enemy
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In 1804 through the See also:influence of See also:Prince See also:Adam See also:Czartoryski he entered the Russian See also:diplomatic service, and was employed in 1805 as Russian See also:commissioner with the Anglo-Neapolitan, and in 18o6 with the Prussian army
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He was entrusted with an important See also:mission to See also:Constantinople in 1807, but the conclusion of the See also:alliance between See also:Alexander I. and Napoleon at See also:Tilsit in See also:July interrupted his career, necessitating a temporary retirement after the completion of his business with the See also:Porte
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He returned to Vienna, but on the demand of Napoleon for his See also:extradition Metternich desired him to leave the See also:capital
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In London, where he found safety from Napoleon, he renewed many old ties, and remained in See also:England until 1812, when he was recalled by Alexander
.
He diligently sought to sow dissension in the Bonaparte See also:household, and in a mission to See also:Sweden he secured the co-operation of Bernadotte against Napoleon
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On the entry of the See also:allies into Paris he became See also:commissary general to the provisional government
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At the See also:Bourbon restoration General Pozzo di Borgo became Russian See also:ambassador at the Tuileries, and sought to secure a See also:marriage between the See also:duke of See also:Berry and the Russian grandduchess See also:Anna, Alexander's See also:sister
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He assisted at the See also:Congress of Vienna, and during the See also:Hundred Days he joined See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XVIII. in See also:Belgium, where he was also instructed to discuss the situation with See also:Wellington
.
The See also:tsar dreamed of allowing an See also:appeal to the See also:people of France on the subject of the government of France in accordance with his vague liberalizing tendencies, but Pozzo's suggestions in this direction were met by violent opposition, the duke refusing to make any concessions to what he regarded as See also:rebellion; but in See also:Petersburg, on the other See also:hand, his See also:attachment to the Bourbon See also:dynasty was -considered excessive
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During the early years of his See also:residence in Paris Pozzo laboured tirelessly to lessen the burdens laid on France by the allies and to shorten the See also:period of foreign occupation
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That his French sympathies were re-cognized in Paris is shown by the See also:strange See also:suggestion that he should enter the French See also:ministry with the See also:portfolio of foreign affairs
.
He consistently supported the moderate party at See also:court, and stood by the ministry of the duc de See also:Richelieu, thus earning the distrust and dislike of Metternich, who held him responsible for the revival of Liberal agitation in France
.
His influence at the Tuileries declined with the See also:accession of See also:Charles X., whose reactionary tendencies had always been distasteful to him; but at the revolution of 183o, when the Tsar See also:Nicholas was reluctant to acknowledge Louis Philippe, he did See also:good service in preventing difficulties with See also:Russia
.
In 1832 he visited Petersburg; the next See also:year he was in London renewing
his relations with Wellington, and early in 1835 he was suddenly transferred to the London embassy in See also:succession to Prince Lieven
.
Although he did not lose in official standing, Pozzo was aware that this See also:change was due to suspicions See also:long harboured in various quarters in St Petersburg that his See also:diplomacy was too favourable to French interests
.
In London his See also:health suffered, and he retired from the service in 1839 to spend the See also:rest of his days in Paris, where he died on the 15th of See also:February 1842
.
He had been made a See also:count and peer of France in 1818
.
See Ouvaroff, See also:Stein et Pozzo (St Petersburg, 1846) ; See also:Correspondence diplomatique du See also:comte Pozzo di Borgo et du comte de See also:Nesselrode, ed. by Charles Pozzo di Borgo (2 vols., Paris, 1890–1897) ; Vicomte A
.
Maggiolo, See also:Corse, France et Russie
.
Pozzo di Borgo, 1764–1842 (Paris, 189o) ; J.B.H.R
.
Capefigure, See also:Les Diplomates europeens (4 vols., 1843–1847)
.
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