Eduard Thouvenel and the Union of Romanian principalities (1856-1859)
Journal Title: Codrul Cosminului - Year 2010, Vol 16, Issue 2
Abstract
The personality of Edouard Thouvenel, a French diplomat whose name was connected most frequently to the achievement of the Union of the Romanian Principalities, between 1856 and 1859, is often and justly invoked for understanding this important sequence of the Romanians’ modern history from the middle of the 19th century. Born in November 11, 1818, in Verdun, Edouard Thouvenel entered diplomacy in 1841, then was chargé d’affaires and plenipotentiary minister (between 1846-1849), in Athens and then in Munich (in 1851), and after that he was appointed director of Political Affairs in France’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in February 1852. In 1854, because of the divergences he had with the minister of Foreign Affairs, Drouyn de Lhuys, he resigned. But his career is saved by Napoleon III himself, who appoints him ambassador in Constantinople, while the Crimean War was in full deployment (May 3, 1855). He then exerts this function for five years, between 1855 and 1860, a period marked by the Congress of Paris, by the issue of the Romanian Principalities and the beginning of the Italian issue, which causes the resignation of the then minister of foreign affairs, Alexandre Walewski, in December 1859. So, being a successor of Walewski, Edouard Thouvenel secured the position of minister of External Affairs until 1862, when he resigned. During the years that followed, he was president of the Eastern Railroads Company (Compania Drumurilor de Fier din Est), then grand référendaire of the Senate, in 1865. Thouvenel falls ill in 1866 and dies on October 23, when he was only 48 years old, right when things were being prepared for him to return to Quay d’Orsay.
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Iulian Oncescu
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