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Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gros

French nobleman, diplomat, senator, photographer, painter (1793-1870)

Field	Value
name	Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gros
image	Jean-Baptiste Louis Gros 1858.JPG
caption	Baron Gros in 1858
birth_date	8 February 1793
birth_place	Ivry-sur-Seine, France
death_date	17 August 1870
death_place	Paris, France
title	Baron Gros
office	French senator
term_start	September 1858
term_end	1870
nationality	French
battles	Second Opium War
awards	*Knight Order of Santiago (1839)

Grand-croix, Legion of Honour (1861)

Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gros (1793–1870), also known as Baron Gros, was a French diplomat and later senator, as well as a notable pioneer of photography.

Life and career

He entered the French diplomatic service in 1823 and was given the title of baron in 1829 during the Bourbon Restoration. He was dispatched to Bogotá (1838–1842) as chargé d'affaires during the Colombian Civil War, and later elsewhere in Latin America, before being recalled to Europe and then sent as Minister Plenipotentiary to Athens in 1850.

He served as Ambassador to London (1852–1863), traveling extensively, including to China and Japan in 1857 and 1858. He was an ambassador during the Anglo-French expedition to China (1856-1860). On 9 October 1858, the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between France and Japan was concluded at Edo, to which he was a signatory; this treaty established diplomatic relations between the two imperial nations.

In September 1858, he was named to the French Senate, where he served until his death in 1870.

He produced many famous photographs — chief among them those of the Acropolis in Greece. While he is best known for his daguerreotypes, he painted a few Latin American landscape paintings which are quite striking for their realism. Baron Gros, a member of The Photographic Society, also photographed The Great Exhibition of 1851 in London.

Honours

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References

[http://www.senat.fr/senateur-2nd-empire/gros_jean_baptiste_louis0182e2.html www.senat.fr]
Cousin de Montauban de Palikao. (1932). "L'expédition de Chine de 1860". Plon.
[[Christian Polak. Dr Christian Polak]]: ''Soie et lumières: L'âge d'or des échanges franco-japonais (des origines aux années 1950).'' Tokyo: ''Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie Française du Japon'' [[Hachette (publisher). Hachette]], (2001); 絹と光: 知られざる日仏交流100年の歴史 (江戶時代-1950年代) ''Kinu to hikariō: shirarezaru Nichi-Futsu kōryū 100-nen no rekishi (Edo jidai-1950-nendai).'' Tokyo: Ashetto Fujin Gahōsha (2002)
[http://www.napoleon.org/fr/salle_lecture/biographies/files/477317.asp www.napoleon.org]
[http://data.bnf.fr/13012971/jean-baptiste-louis_gros/ www.bnf.fr]

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