Dinner-Conference - L'Amiral Duperré, un rochelais au beau destin
Historic Friday 7 February 2025 at 6 pm.
Dinner-Conference - L'Amiral Duperré, un rochelais au beau destin
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Baron Victor-Guy Duperré, born in La Rochelle on February 20, 1775, and died in Paris on November 2, 1846, was a French naval officer of the 18th and 19th centuries.
France in 1830, peer de France and Minister of the Navy and Colonies.
France in 1830, peer de France and Minister of the Navy and Colonies.
A ship's boy turned minister
Born into an old Rouen family, the twenty-second child of Jean Augustin Duperré, he embarked as a cabin boy at the age of 16 on a merchant ship, the Henri IV, bound for a campaign in the Indian Ocean.
He joined the navy in 1792, and in 1796, taken prisoner by the British in a night battle, he was incarcerated in England, exchanged two years later and commissioned as an ensign.
Napoleon Iᵉʳ appointed him captain and chevalier de la Légion d'honneur, before promoting him directly to the rank of commander of the same order. On December 6, 1810, he ennobled him Baron of the Empire.
On November 18, 1834, he became Minister of Marine and Colonies in the Duke of Treviso's ministry. As minister, he took important administrative measures. He took over the marine portfolio in the third Soult ministry on October 29, 1840, until his final retirement on February 6, 1843, for health reasons. He died three years later on November 2, 1846 in Paris.
Lecture by Pascal Even
Doctor of State from the University of Paris-1-Sorbonne (1986), Pascal Even is a member of the Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques (section histoire moderne et des révolutions) and President of the Société des archives historiques de la Saintonge et de l'Aunis. He is also President of the Académie des belles lettres, sciences et arts de La Rochelle, and General Secretary of the Fédération des sociétés savantes d'Aunis et de Saintonge.
He is also the author of several works on the history of our region.
Born into an old Rouen family, the twenty-second child of Jean Augustin Duperré, he embarked as a cabin boy at the age of 16 on a merchant ship, the Henri IV, bound for a campaign in the Indian Ocean.
He joined the navy in 1792, and in 1796, taken prisoner by the British in a night battle, he was incarcerated in England, exchanged two years later and commissioned as an ensign.
Napoleon Iᵉʳ appointed him captain and chevalier de la Légion d'honneur, before promoting him directly to the rank of commander of the same order. On December 6, 1810, he ennobled him Baron of the Empire.
On November 18, 1834, he became Minister of Marine and Colonies in the Duke of Treviso's ministry. As minister, he took important administrative measures. He took over the marine portfolio in the third Soult ministry on October 29, 1840, until his final retirement on February 6, 1843, for health reasons. He died three years later on November 2, 1846 in Paris.
Lecture by Pascal Even
Doctor of State from the University of Paris-1-Sorbonne (1986), Pascal Even is a member of the Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques (section histoire moderne et des révolutions) and President of the Société des archives historiques de la Saintonge et de l'Aunis. He is also President of the Académie des belles lettres, sciences et arts de La Rochelle, and General Secretary of the Fédération des sociétés savantes d'Aunis et de Saintonge.
He is also the author of several works on the history of our region.
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