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Jean Vesque de Puttelange (12 November 1760 - 1 March 1829), born in Brussels, was a government official of the Holy Roman Empire, serving in administrations in the Hapsburg Netherlands and Vienna. He belonged to a family originally from Lorraine, the Vesques de Puttelange (a town on the French border with Luxembourg ). He was the father of the diplomat Johann Vesque von Püttlingen, who composed operas and songs under the pseudonym 'J. van Hoven'. ==Life== He was born in Brussels, Austrian Netherlands, where his father - also named Jean Vesque〔He died in Stadtbrédimus, Luxembourg, 23 October 1784.〕 - was Inspector-General of the estates of the Bishop of Metz, and from 1760 Inspector of Imperial Lotteries, a post in the government of the Austrian Netherlands. His French mother, Cécilie de Roquilly, came from Commercy in the départment of Meuse. He went to school in his mother's home town of Commercy, and then attended the faculties of philosophy and law at University of Louvain. In 1787 he obtained a post in the government service in Brussels where he was on the commission charged with reform of ecclesiastical affairs. On the outbreak of the Brabant Revolution in October 1789 (which occurred simultaneously with the French Revolution and the Liège Revolution, the whole Austrian administration sought safety in Luxembourg; because of a lack of horses, Vesque couldn't go, and stayed in :fr:Treurenberg in Brussels for two months. Brabant formed the nucleus of the unrecognised United Belgian States. Vesque eventually arrived in Trier, where the rest of the government in exile had gathered along with Philipp von Cobenzl. An Austrian army defeated the Belgian revolutionaries in December 1790; in the Revolution's aftermath a convention was held at The Hague on 10 December 1790 to decide how to re-establish Austrian rule, at which Vesque was a negotiator. The Liège Revolution was also finally suppressed by Austrian forces in January 1791. His novel ''Le Roi Guiot'' was published in 1791. On 17 March 1793 Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen became Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands and Vesque returned to Brussels where - among other functions, he acted as censor of theatres. The peace only lasted a few months before the outbreak of the War of the First Coalition, which was an attempt by the Triple Alliance (Prussia, Austria and Britain) to defeat Revolutionary France. France invaded the Low Countries in 1794. The Austrian administration fled for the second time, and during the evacuation of Brussels Vesque was in charge of the government archives, taking them down the River Rhine through Holland to Düsseldorf; thence he went to Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle), and continued to Dillenburg in the Duchy of Nassau, where his time of service (since 1787) with the Austrian administration came to an end on 31 December 1794. It appears that he was relatively destitute; he had no belongings since everything was in Brussels. An Austrian Army was defeated in 1795 at the Battle of Fleurus; France formally annexed the Low Countries, and brought in a government in a typically new French style based on merit rather than parentage (the French period). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jean Vesque de Puttelange」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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