25 Facts About Adolphe Barrot

Adolphe Barrot served in Colombia, the Philippines, Haiti, Brazil, Portugal, Naples, Belgium and Spain.

Theodore-Adolphe Barrot was born in Paris on 14 October 1801.

Adolphe Barrot's parents were Jean Andre Barrot, an advocate and deputy to the National Convention, and Theresa Virginie Borelli de Serre.

Adolphe Barrot was the brother of Odilon Barrot and Ferdinand Barrot.

Adolphe Barrot was appointed French Consul at Cartagena, Colombia, where he observed the slender-snouted or American crocodile.

On 3 August 1833 Adolphe Barrot was arrested and his official papers seized.

Adolphe Barrot was first French consul in Manila from 1835 to 1838.

Adolphe Barrot said that "unless haste is made" the unique way of life of the Hawaiians would be lost.

Adolphe Barrot was enthusiastic about the musicians of Hawaii, but found the dancing monotonous.

In 1838 Adolphe Barrot returned on leave from Manila, and in 1939 convinced the government and several leading trading houses of the great commercial potential of Southeast Asia.

Adolphe Barrot was sent back to Manila as Consul General for "Indochine", meaning all of Southeast Asia.

Adolphe Barrot's letters describing the journey to her uncle, Captain George William Manby, were published at Yarmouth in 1842.

Adolphe Barrot set up residence in Manila as French consul general.

Adolphe Barrot's son Georges Jean Andre Odilon was born in Manila in 1841.

Adolphe Barrot collected much information about the trade in the region and strongly recommended that France establish a base there to compete with Singapore and Batavia.

Adolphe Barrot was sent on a special mission to Haiti later in 1843.

Adolphe Barrot's mandate was to negotiate payment at least to the surviving colonists and their impoverished heirs.

In 1845 Adolphe Barrot was Consul General in Cairo and wrote to Francois Guizot, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, about the gum trade of Kordofan in the Sudan.

Adolphe Barrot called the Egyptian Pasha Mehemet Ali a "great man", as did Guizot.

In May 1846 Jules Itier and the members of a commercial delegation stayed with Adolphe Barrot while returning from a visit to China after the end of the First Opium War.

Adolphe Barrot was French minister plenipotentiary to Brazil and then to Lisbon in 1849, to Naples in 1951 and to Brussels in 1853.

Adolphe Barrot was French ambassador to Madrid from August 1858 to October 1864.

Adolphe Barrot was made a senator on 5 October 1864.

Adolphe Barrot retired from the diplomatic service as an ambassador on 17 February 1865.

Adolphe Barrot voted in the Senate with the dynastic majority.