Dominique-Georges-Frédéric Dufour de Pradt (1759–1837)
Born 1759 CE, died 1837 CE.
Abbé Dominique George Frédéric de Rion de Prolhiac Dufour or de Fourt de Pradt (23 April 1759 in Allanche (Auvergne, France) – 18 March 1837 in Paris) was a French clergyman and ambassador. As a diplomat, he went on numerous diplomatic missions for Napoleon. He became a priest at the age of 24. A conservative, he was forced into exile from Revolutionary France in 1791. He favored monarchism over republicanism, but saw absolutist monarchies as an antiquated relic. In 1804 he became a secretary of Napoleon, in 1805 Bishop of Poitiers. On 12 May 1808 he was appointed as archbishop of Mechelen (resigned in 1815). In 1812 he was awarded the position of the French ambassador in Warsaw, preparing the Concordat of 1813. After the Napoleonic wars he published a series of books which portrayed Russia as a "despotic" and "Asiatic" power hungry to conquer Europe.
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