Charles - Frédéric Reinhard Charles - Frédéric , " comte " Reinhard ( born Karl Friedrich Reinhard ; 2 October 1761 – 25 December 1837 ) 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 . Biography . Early life and politics . Born in [ [ Schorndorf ] ] ( presently in Baden - Württemberg , Germany ) , he was the son of a Protestant minister . He studied Theology at the [ [ Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen | University of Tübingen ] ] and met with [ [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ] ] ( the two corresponded for a period ) . Reinhard moved to Bordeaux in 1787 , having been employed as tutor by a Huguenot family , and soon became an acquaintance of future Girondist leaders . After the Revolution broke out , he asked to be naturalized , joined the Girondist club and , under the [ [ Legislative Assembly ( France ) | Legislative Assembly ] ] , moved to Paris , where he entered the diplomatic service . He was first detached as Legation Secretary to the Kingdom of Great Britain , under Ambassador [ [ Charles Maurice de Talleyrand - Périgord | Talleyrand ] ] , who became his mentor and political ally . With support from the Girondists , the National Convention appointed him First Secretary to the French Embassy in the Kingdom of Sicily . Directory and Consulate . Despite the Girondists ' fall , the Committee of Public Safety promoted him head of division at the Foreign Relations Department ( 1794 ) . The French Directory made him [ [ Minister Plenipotentiary ] ] to the Hanseatic League in Hamburg ( 1795 - 1798 ) , and later to the same position in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany . On 12 October 1796 , he married Christine Reimarus , the daughter of philosopher [ [ Hermann Samuel Reimarus ] ] and a native of Hamburg . During the [ [ French Revolutionary Wars : Campaigns of 1799 | March 1799 Campaign ] ] , the took charge of Tuscany on orders from his superiors . During the period , he was admitted to the [ [ Institut de France ] ] , in the [ [ Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques ] ] . Reinhard replaced Talleyrand as Minister , under Director [ [ Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès ] ] , and served in this capacity until after [ [ Napoleon I of France | Napoleon Bonaparte ] ] ' s [ [ 18 Brumaire | Coup of 18 Brumaire 1799 ] ] ( when Talleyrand again came to the office ) . In 1800 , he was Minister Plenipotentiary to the [ [ Helvetic Republic ] ] , and , in 1801 , to the [ [ Cisalpine Republic ] ] ; in 1802 , he was assigned to the same position in the [ [ Lower Saxon Circle ] ] , where , after 1804 , he represented the [ [ First French Empire | French Empire ] ] . In 1803 , when the Institut underwent reorganizing , he was moved to the [ [ Académie des Inscriptions et Belles - Lettres ] ] . Moldavian assignment and Russian imprisonment . [ [ File : Alexandru Moruzi at Curtea Nouă . jpg | thumb | 350px | Alexander Mourousis welcoming the British ambassador in [ [ Curtea Nouă ] ] ] ] Reinhard ' s assignment to [ [ Moldavia ] ] in late 1805 - early 1806 was , according to [ [ Romania ] ] n historian [ [ Neagu Djuvara ] ] , unprecedented in that Reihard had occupied the high positions before being dispatched to Iaşi . Djuvara indicated that the measure was indicative of the [ [ Danubian Principalities ] ] ' growth in importance at the time when Napoleon maneuvered against the [ [ Russian Empire ] ] . Reportedly , Reinhard unsuccessfully protested the measure , believing it to be equivalent to a demotion , and , as a result of this , his office was added the function of Resident . The latter move allegedly caused controversy in the [ [ Ottoman Empire ] ] , Moldavia ' s suzerain , since it seemed to imply that France gave additional recognition to Moldavia ' s ruler , [ [ List of rulers of Moldavia | Prince ] ] [ [ Alexander Mourousis ] ] . After settling in Iaşi , the consul and his wife traveled extensively throughout Moldavia and into [ [ Wallachia ] ] and [ [ Austrian Empire | Austrian ] ] - ruled Transylvania . Letters addressed by Madame Reihard to her mother , later gathered in a volume , provide detail on the two countries ' societies : after they visited [ [ List of rulers of Wallachia | Prince ] ] [ [ Constantine Ypsilantis ] ] in his Bucharest residence , the newly renovated [ [ Curtea Nouă ] ] , she recorded that the palace was unappealing and poorly maintained ; amazed that houses in Bucharest lacked writing desks , they were advised to hold writing material on their lap ; also according to Christine Reihard , roads in northern Wallachia presented serious challenges to travelers . She left additional detail on the state of [ [ Roma minority in Romania | Roma ] ] [ [ Slavery in Romania | slaves ] ] , claiming that , before 1806 , an unnamed boyar from the [ [ Sturdza family ] ] had employed a group of Roma at a factory on his estate , but that the project was abandoned when the employees expressed suffering over not being allowed their traditional freedom of movement and trade . Reportedly unbeknown to Consul Reihard , the [ [ French Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire | French Ambassador to the Porte ] ] [ [ Horace François Bastien Sébastiani de La Porta | Horace Sébastiani ] ] , persuaded Sultan [ [ Selim III ] ] that Princes Mourousis and Ypsilantis were secretly plotting an alliance with Russia . Consequently , Selim sent orders for the rulers to be deposed , provoking the [ [ Russo - Turkish War ( 1806 – 1812 ) | Russo - Turkish War of 1806 – 1812 ] ] . This exposed Reihard and his family to risk , and , after the [ [ Military history of Imperial Russia | Imperial Russian Army ] ] , commanded by [ [ Ivan Ivanovich Michelson ] ] and [ [ Mikhail Andreyevich Miloradovich ] ] , stormed into Moldavia , they were arrested . The latter action , going against international law , saw the Reinhards transportation to regions of southern Russia , where they spent the following winter before being released with official apologies . Return , Restoration , and July Monarchy . Upon the family ' s return to Paris , Charles Reinhard , made a baron of the Empire , was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to the [ [ Kingdom of Westphalia ] ] , and , in May 1814 , was Head of Chancellery at the French Department of Foreign Affairs ( serving until Napoleon ' s fall and the 1814 Bourbon Restoration ) . He kept a low profile during the [ [ Hundred Days ] ] , and , after King [ [ Louis XVIII of France | Louis XVIII ] ] regained his throne , was made a [ [ Count | comte ] ] , awarded a position in the [ [ Council of State ( France ) | Conseil d ' État ] ] , and received the office of Minister Plenipotentiary to the German Confederation in Frankfurt ( December 1815 – 1829 ) . Following a brief hiatus before the [ [ July Revolution ] ] , Reinhard represented [ [ Louis - Philippe of France | Louis - Philippe ] ] in the Kingdom of Saxony . The July Monarchy admitted him a Peer in October 1832 . Also in that year , Charles Reinhard regained the [ [ Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques ] ] . He died in Paris five years later . References . < br > < br > [ [ Category : 1761 births ] ] [ [ Category : 1837 deaths ] ] [ [ Category : People from Schorndorf ] ] [ [ Category : Comtes Reinhard ] ] [ [ Category : First French Empire ] ] [ [ Category : French diplomats ] ] [ [ Category : French Foreign Ministers ] ] [ [ Category : French essayists ] ] [ [ Category : 18th - century French politicians ] ] [ [ Category : 19th - century French politicians ] ] [ [ Category : French Protestants ] ] [ [ Category : French people of German descent ] ] [ [ Category : History of Romania ] ] [ [ Category : Moldavia ] ] [ [ Category : Members of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques ] ] [ [ Category : Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles - Lettres ] ] [ [ Category : People of the French Revolution ] ] [ [ Category : Peers of France ] ]