Louis-Guillaume Otto
| Louis-Guillaume Otto Ludwig-Wilhelm Otto |
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| Born |
7 August 1754 Baden |
| Died | 9 November 1817 (aged 63) Paris, France |
| Title | S.E. M le comte de Môloy |
| Known for | Ambassadeur de France |
| Nationality |
 France
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Louis-Guillaume Otto, comte de Mosloy (7 August 1754, , Baden – 9 November 1817, Paris) was a Germano-French diplomat.
A student of Christoph Wilhelm von Koch and a friend of Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès at the University of Strasbourg, Ludwig Otto graduated in Modern Languages and Law.
He entered French diplomatic service becoming private secretary to César de La Luzerne in Bavaria, before being despatched in 1779 on a diplomatic mission to the newly formed United States of America. While in Philadelphia, he succeeded François Barbé-Marbois as Secretary of the French Legation in May 1785, serving another two terms as Chargé d'affaires ad interim, having established cordial relations with George Washington and other senior members of Congress.
In March 1787, Otto married Elizabeth, daughter of Peter Van Brugh Livingston, but she died in December 1787.
He returned to France at the end of 1792, and shortly afterwards the Revolutionary Government Committee of Public Safety appointed him as the first Head of the Political Division for Foreign Affairs. However, the fall of the Girondins on 31 May 1793 led to Otto's dismissal and arrest. He then came close to being guillotined, but survived and followed Abbot Sieyès to Berlin as Secretary to his Legation, remaining there as Chargé d'affaires after Sieyès joined the French Directory. A letter written by him on 6 July 1799 seems to be the earliest recorded use of the term Industrial Revolution in French; in the letter, he announces that that revolution has begun in France. He was posted to London in 1800, first as Commissioner responsible for Prisoners of War, before appointment as Minister Plenipotentiary. Instructed to negotiate with the British Cabinet, in 1801, he forged the outline agreement for the Peace of Amiens.
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