Charles de Viel-Castel
French politician and baron
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Charles-Louis-Gaspard-Gabriel de Salviac, baron de Viel Castel (14 October 1800, in Paris – 6 October 1887, in Paris) was a French historian and diplomat. He was a great-nephew of Mirabeau via his mother, and the elder brother of Horace de Viel-Castel.
Biography
In 1818 he entered the diplomatic service. In 1829 he returned to France's ministry of foreign affairs, becoming its sous-directeur then its director of political affairs, but his career was interrupted by his offers of resignation after the revolutions of 1830 and 1848, which he made final after the coup of 1851. He was elected a member of the Académie française in 1878
Main works
- Essai historique sur les deux Pitt (1845-1846), on Pitt the Elder and Pitt the Younger
- Histoire de la Restauration (20 volumes, 1860-1878), on the Bourbon Restoration
- Essai sur le théâtre espagnol (2 volumes, 1882), on Spanish theatre
- Histoire de la Restauration
External links
- Works by or about Charles de Viel-Castel at the Internet Archive
- Biography on the Académie française site
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- François le Métel de Boisrobert (1634)
- Jean Regnault de Segrais (1662)
- Jean Galbert de Campistron (1701)
- Philippe Néricault Destouches (1723)
- Louis de Boissy (1754)
- Jean-Baptiste de La Curne de Sainte-Palaye (1758)
- Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas (Chamfort) (1781)
- Pierre Louis Roederer (1803)
- Pierre-Marc-Gaston de Lévis (1816)
- Philippe Paul, comte de Ségur (1830)
- Charles de Viel-Castel (1873)
- Edmond Jurien de La Gravière (1888)
- Ernest Lavisse (1892)
- Georges de Porto-Riche (1923)
- Pierre Benoit (1931)
- Jean Paulhan (1963)
- Eugène Ionesco (1970)
- Marc Fumaroli (1995)
- Christian Jambet (2024)