Alphonse de Beauchamp
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Alphonse de Beauchamp was a French
historian. Born in Monaco
, he was educated in Paris
. He entered the Sardinian
military service in 1784, but suffered imprisonment in 1792 for refusing to bear arms against the French Republic. Beauchamp escaped to France, where he obtained a position in the office of the Minister of Police, and was assigned the surveillance of the press. Beauchamp commenced his Histoire de la Vendée et des Chouans (three volumes, Paris, 1806), which depicted the cruelties of the Fouché regime. This book displeased the Emperor
, and Beauchamp was banished to Rheims. He was recalled in 1811 and received a subordinate appointment. Under the Restoration
, he received a pension and wrote for the Moniteur and the Gazette de France.
The Mémoires of Fouché (Paris, 1828-29) and those of Fauche-Borel have also been ascribed to him, but in the case of the former it seems certain that he only revised and completed a work really composed by Fouché himself.
French people
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historian. Born in Monaco
Monaco
Monaco , officially the Principality of Monaco , is a sovereign city state on the French Riviera. It is bordered on three sides by its neighbour, France, and its centre is about from Italy. Its area is with a population of 35,986 as of 2011 and is the most densely populated country in the...
, he was educated in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
. He entered the Sardinian
Kingdom of Sardinia
The Kingdom of Sardinia consisted of the island of Sardinia first as a part of the Crown of Aragon and subsequently the Spanish Empire , and second as a part of the composite state of the House of Savoy . Its capital was originally Cagliari, in the south of the island, and later Turin, on the...
military service in 1784, but suffered imprisonment in 1792 for refusing to bear arms against the French Republic. Beauchamp escaped to France, where he obtained a position in the office of the Minister of Police, and was assigned the surveillance of the press. Beauchamp commenced his Histoire de la Vendée et des Chouans (three volumes, Paris, 1806), which depicted the cruelties of the Fouché regime. This book displeased the Emperor
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...
, and Beauchamp was banished to Rheims. He was recalled in 1811 and received a subordinate appointment. Under the Restoration
Bourbon Restoration
The Bourbon Restoration is the name given to the period following the successive events of the French Revolution , the end of the First Republic , and then the forcible end of the First French Empire under Napoleon – when a coalition of European powers restored by arms the monarchy to the...
, he received a pension and wrote for the Moniteur and the Gazette de France.
Works
- Le faux Dauphin (1803)
- Histoire de la campagne de Suwarow en Italie
- Histoire de la Captivité de Pie VII
- Histoire du Pérou (1807)
- Vie politique, militaire et privee du general Moreau (1814)
- Catastrophe de Murat, ou Recit de la derniere revolution de Naples (1815)
- Histoire de Brésil (1815)
- Histoire des campagnes de 1814 et 1815 (1817)
- Biographie des jeunes gens, ou Vies des grands hommes (1818)
- Histoire de la guerre d'Espagne et du Portugal, 1807-1813 (1819)
- Vie de Jules César (1821)
- Vie de Louis XVIII (1821)
- Histoire de la revolution de Piemont (2 vols., 1821, 1823)
- Collection de memoires relatifs aux revolutions d'Espagne (1824)
- Mémoires secrètes et inédites pour servir à l'histoire contemporaine (1825)
The Mémoires of Fouché (Paris, 1828-29) and those of Fauche-Borel have also been ascribed to him, but in the case of the former it seems certain that he only revised and completed a work really composed by Fouché himself.