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Guillemardet Ferdinand
(1765—1809)

France's ambassador to Spain. Talleyrand, the former bishop of Autun turned foreign minister, had appointed Ferdinand Guillemardet France's ambassador to Spain in 1798. Guillemardet also came from Autun, where he was a physician and mayor, and then elected to represent the town in the Convention. In 1800, he was recalled to France and became a prefect. But a tragic fate befell the ambassador: he went insane and died in 1809.

St. Vincent, 1993, Ferdinand Guillemardet