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Jean-Baptiste Esménard

French journalist

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Overview

Jean-Baptiste Esménard (1772–1842) was a French journalist during the Napoleonic era. He was brother to the poet Joseph-Alphonse Esménard and uncle of the artists Inès Esménard and Nathalie Elma d'Esménard.

Life

At age 20, Esménard was a soldier who left France in 1792 to settle in Bourbon Spain, where he remained until the outbreak of the Peninsular War. There he supported Joseph Bonaparte, who reigned in Spain as King Joseph I from 1808 to 1813; but when Joseph I was defeated he returned to France.

External links

Jean-Baptiste Esménard, ed., Memoirs of Don Manuel de Godoy (London: Richard Bentley, 1836)

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