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4 unusual facts about Mathieu de Lesseps


Mathieu de Lesseps

A fourth child, Jules, who, like his father, became a diplomat, was born in Pisa, on 16 February 1809, married Hyacinthe Delarue on 11 March 1874, and died in Paris on 10 October 1887.

Before the birth, in Versailles, of their third child, Ferdinand (1805–1894), they had a son, Théodore, born in Cádiz on 25 September 1802, married in 1828 to Antonia Denois (27 September 1802–29 December 1878), who died in Saint-Germain-en-Laye on 20 May 1874, and a daughter, Adélaïde (1803–1879), who married Jules Tallien de Cabarrus (1801–1870).

He served as inspector general in Livorno and as imperial commissioner, under General François-Xavier Donzelot, in Corfu from May 1810 until June 1814, during the Napoleonic Wars, as the British blockaded Corfu in the midst of the Adriatic campaign of 1807–1814.

Following his first major assignment, as French consul to Morocco, de Lesseps was posted, in 1800, as liaison to the Egyptian Army and as superintendent of trade relations.



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