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<p></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{moresources|date=February 2020}}<br /> {{short description|Governor General of Pondicherry in India}}<br /> {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2020}}<br /> {{Infobox person<br /> | name = Comte Desbassayns de Richemont<br /> | image = <br /> | alt = <br /> | caption = <br /> | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1800|03|29}}<br /> | birth_place = Paris<br /> | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1859|06|26|1800|03|29}}<br /> | death_place = Paris<br /> | nationality = French<br /> | other_names = <br /> | known_for = Inventor<br /> | occupation = Colonial Governor<br /> }}<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Eugène Panon Desbassayns de Richemont&#039;&#039;&#039; (29 March 1800 – 26 June 1859), second Comte de Richemont, was a French colonial administrator and inventor.<br /> <br /> ==Life==<br /> <br /> Eugène Panon Desbassayns de Richemont was born on 29 March 1800 in Paris. His father was [[:fr:Philippe Panon-Desbassayns de Richemont|Philippe Panon-Desbassayns de Richemont]], Comte Desbassayns de Richemont, and his mother was Jeanne-Englée Fulcrande Mourgue. <br /> He married Athénaïs-Claire-Joséphine-Grace on June 10, 1829 in Paris.{{sfn|Neuville}}<br /> Their children were Jeanne Mathilde (1830-1832), [[Pierre Desbassayns de Richemont|Alexandre Pierre Philippe]], third count of Richemont (1833-1912), Edgard Philippe (1835-1914), Naïs Jeanne Modeste Eugénie (1839-1878) and Jeanne Joséphine Grâce Céline Marie (1846-1913).<br /> <br /> Eugène Desbassayns de Richemont was Governor General of [[Puducherry (union territory)|Pondicherry]] in [[India]] between 1826 and 1828. <br /> He was the founder of the [[Lycée français de Pondichéry]] (Collège Royal) on 26 October 1826. In 1839, he donated 15,386 francs for the foundation of a leper colony near Coconut Island. The hospital was completed in 1844, and still exists.<br /> He was the inventor of a method of welding with lead, and of a type of fertilizer.<br /> <br /> Desbassayns de Richemont died on 26 June 1859 in Paris.{{sfn|Neuville}}<br /> <br /> ==Titles==<br /> {{s-start}}<br /> {{s-gov}}<br /> {{succession box | before= [[Joseph Cordier]], Marie Emmanuel&lt;br&gt;(Acting) | title=[[Gouverneur Général de l&#039;Inde française]] | after=[[Joseph Cordier]], Marie Emmanuel&lt;br&gt;(Acting) | years=June 19, 1826&amp;ndash; August 2, 1828}}<br /> {{s-end}}<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> {{Reflist |30em}}<br /> <br /> ==Sources==<br /> {{refbegin}}<br /> *{{citation |language=fr |title=Eugène Panon Desbassayns de Richemont<br /> |last=Neuville |first=Emmanuel |work=geneanet |url=https://gw.geneanet.org/eneuville?lang=en&amp;p=eugene&amp;n=panon+desbassayns+de+richemont |accessdate=2018-03-17}}<br /> {{refend}}<br /> <br /> {{authority control}}<br /> <br /> {{DEFAULTSORT:Desbassayns de Richemont, Eugene}}<br /> [[Category:French colonial governors and administrators]]<br /> [[Category:Governors of French India]]<br /> [[Category:Counts Desbassayns de Richemont|Eugene]]<br /> [[Category:People of the Bourbon Restoration]]<br /> [[Category:1800 births]]<br /> [[Category:1859 deaths]]<br /> [[Category:Civil servants from Paris]]<br /> [[Category:Nobility from Paris]]<br /> <br /> <br /> {{France-noble-stub}}</div>

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