Charles-Frédéric Reinhard
Charles-Frédéric, comte Reinhard was a Württembergian-born French diplomat, essayist, and politician who briefly served as the Consulate's Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1799. A Girondist during the early stages of the French Revolution, he was dispatched to several countries before and after his ministerial mandate. In 1806–1807, he was appointed Consul and Resident to Moldavia, and subsequently arrested by the Russian Empire for one year. Reinhard was promoted under the Bourbon Restoration governments, which he represented to the German Confederation, and continued his political career under the July Monarchy.
Charles-Frédéric Reinhard
Alexander Mourousis welcoming the British ambassador in Curtea Nouă
The Consulate was the top-level government of France from the fall of the Directory in the coup of 18 Brumaire on 10 November 1799 until the start of the French Empire on 18 May 1804. By extension, the term The Consulate also refers to this period of French history.
Portrait of First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte, by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Image: Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, by Jacques Louis David
Image: Adu C 233 Ducos (R., 1747 1816)
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