RARE "French Foreign Minister" Édouard Drouyn de Lhuys Hand Written Letter For Sale

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RARE "French Foreign Minister" Édouard Drouyn de Lhuys Hand Written Letter:
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Up for sale a RARE! "French Foreign Minister" Édouard Drouyn de Lhuys Hand Written Letter Twice Signed.

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Édouard Drouyn de Lhuys (pronounced [edwaːʁ dʁuɛ̃ də‿lɥis]; 19 November 1805 – 1 March 1881) was a French diplomat.

Born in Paris, he was educated at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand. The

scion of a wealthy and noble house, he excelled in rhetoric. He quickly became

interested in politics and diplomacy. He was ambassador to the Netherlands and

Spain, and distinguished himself by his opposition to Guizot. Drouyn de Lhuys served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1848 to 1849 in the

first government of Odilon Barrot. In Barrot's

second government, he was replaced by Alexis de Tocqueville, and

was appointed ambassador to Great Britain. He returned briefly as foreign minister

for a few days in January 1851, and then returned permanently in the summer of

1852, becoming the first foreign minister of the Second Empire. He resigned his post in 1855, during the Crimean War, when the peace preliminaries he had agreed to in

consultation with the British and Austrians at Vienna were rejected by Napoleon III.  Drouyn de

Lhuys returned to power 7 years later, in 1862, when foreign minister Édouard Thouvenel resigned

over differences with Napoleon on Italian affairs. Drouyn was thus foreign

minister in the lead-up to the Austro-Prussian War. He

commented that, "the Emperor has immense desires and limited abilities. He

wants to do extraordinary things but is only capable of extravagances." In

the aftermath of that war, which was disastrous to French interests in Europe,

Drouyn resigned and withdrew into private life. 1854: Knight Grand Cross in

the Order of Leopold.

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