Emmanuel Louis Marie Guignard, vicomte de Saint-Priest [SEP] native language
Emmanuel Louis Marie Guignard, vicomte de Saint-Priest
Emmanuel Louis Marie Guignard, vicomte de Saint-Priest (1789 – February 26, 1881), was a French politician and diplomat during the Bourbon Restoration. He was the son of François-Emmanuel Guignard, comte de Saint-Priest, one of King Louis XVI of France's last ministers. Born during the opening days of the French Revolution, he was the godson of Queen Marie Antoinette.
Like his eldest brother, Guilliame Emmanuel Guignard, vicomte de Saint
comte de Saint-Priest, was one of the last ministers of Louis XVI of France.
Educated in Russia, where his father was the Governor of Podolia and Odessa, Guignard returned to France with his father in 1822. During the July Monarchy, he departed from the Legitimist tradition of his family, particularly that of his uncle Emmanuel Louis Marie de Guignard, vicomte de Saint Priest, to become a warm friend to King Louis-Philippe of France, whom he served between 1833 and 1838 as an ambassador in Brazil