Louis de Beaupoil de Saint-Aulaire


Louis-Clair de Beaupoil comte de Saint-Aulaire was a French politician.

Life

After attending school at the École des ponts et chaussées and polytechnique, he served as chamberlain to Napoleon I of France, then prefect of the Meuse in 1813 and of Haute-Garonne in 1814. He was elected to the Chambre des Députés in 1815, and reelected from the Gard département in 1818, 1822 and 1827, but beaten in the elections of 1829. He was then made French ambassador to Rome, Vienna and to London. He was elected a member of the Académie française in 1841.

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