Conférence de Bernard Gueugnon sur Vergennes

Bernard Gueugnon's lecture on Vergennes, Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, Burgundian, happy instigator of the independence of the United States, principal minister of Louis XVI (1719-1787). Vergennes, a hamlet in Saint-Gervais-sur-Couches, bears the name of a famous Burgundian, diplomat and French minister, who was born on 29 December 1719 in Dijon and died on 13 February 1787 in Versailles. Born in Dijon to a noble family of the robe, ennobled in 1681, he studied at the Jesuits' Collège des Godrans in Dijon and then at the Faculty of Law. A great-uncle, Théodore Chevignard de Chavigny, born in Beaune and French ambassador to Portugal, trained him as an embassy attaché from 1739 to 1749. Bernard Gueugnon's talk recounts the remarkable and surprising life of this illustrious figure, a symbol of his time (1719-1787) but also a contemporary figure for diplomacy and his ideas on world balance and international law. Every life is an adventure ...

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