page_title: Guillaume-Charles Faipoult
section_title: Italy
hierarchical_section_title: Guillaume-Charles Faipoult / Italy
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Germaine Faipoult de Maisoncelle and her daughter Julie playing the Spinet (c. 1799). Germaine's husband, Guillaume-Charles Faipoult, was Minister of Finance of France in 1795 and represent France in Italy in 1796–99. Oil on canvas.
context_page_description: Guillaume-Charles Faipoult was a French aristocrat, soldier and politician who was Minister of Finance during the French Revolution. He then represented France in Italy, where he organized the newly formed republics. During the First French Empire he was prefect of the Scheldt department, and then Minister of Finance in Spain under Joseph Bonaparte. Faipoult was prefect of Saône-et-Loire during the Hundred Days.
context_section_description: Faipoult was then sent as minister plenipotentiary to the Republic of Genoa, where he destroyed the influence of the agents of Austria and England and gained the confidence of Bonaparte.
  He was minister plenipotentiary to Genoa in years IV to VI.
  While in Genoa during the transition from the rule of the oligarchy to the Ligurian Republic in June 1797 he came into conflict with Jean Lannes, the future Marshall.
  Lannes' blunt speech threatened to undo Faipoult's diplomacy. Lannes accused Faipoult with meddling in military affairs. 
  Napoleon had to intervene to smooth out the dispute.
  Napoleon wanted to take Faipoult on the expedition to Egypt.
  However he was charged in turn with missions to Milan, Rome and Naples, which kept him in Italy.
  Failpoult was commissioner of the French government in Italy from years VI to VII.
  He organized most of the small republics that were founded at that time. His quarrel with Jean Étienne Championnet in Naples were denounced by Bertrand du Calvados, and he was forced to go into hiding until the coup of 18 Brumaire VIII (9 November 1799).
caption: Germaine Faipoult de Maisoncelle and her daughter Julie by Serangeli circa 1799 by Gioacchino Giuseppe Serangeli
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