Armand Charles Emmanuel Guignard, comte de Saint-Priest

Armand Charles Emmanuel Guignard, comte de Saint-Priest (1782–1863)[1] was a French aristocrat who was involved in both the politics of France and the Russian Empire during the First French Empire and the Bourbon Restoration. He was the second son of prominent French émigré diplomat François-Emmanuel Guignard, comte de Saint-Priest, one of King Louis XVI of France's[2] last ministers.

Armand Charles Emmanuel Guignard
Born1782
Died1863
NationalityFrench
OccupationDiplomat
Years active1820s-1860s

During the Napoleonic Wars, he served Czar Alexander I of Russia. During this time, he married Princess Sophie Alexeievna Galitzine (23 November 1777 – 23 July 1814), the daughter of a highly noble Lithuanian-Russian family.[3] In appreciation of his loyalty, Alexander made him the Governor of Podolia and Odessa.[4][5]

In 1822, he returned to France with his son, Alexis Guignard, comte de Saint-Priest, and was made a Peer of France.

References
  1. Duvurgier, A. J. (1839). Mémorial historique de la noblesse, Volume 1. p. 182. Retrieved 8 September 2015.
  2. Annuaire de la noblesse de France et des maisons souveraines de l'Europe. 1870. p. 127. Retrieved 8 September 2015.
  3. Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Saint Priest, François Emmanuel Guignard s.v. Armand Emmanuel Charles" . Encyclopædia Britannica. 24 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 42.
  4. The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham. Clarendon Press. 1989. p. 271. ISBN 0198226160. Retrieved 8 September 2015.
  5. France (1816). Bulletin des lois de la République franc̜aise, Volume 2; Volume 7. p. 294. Retrieved 8 September 2015.
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