Benedetti

Benedetti, VINCENT, COUNT, a French diplomatist, born in 1817 at Bastia, in Corsica, was appointed in 1855 director of political affairs to the foreign minister, and in this capacity edited the protocols of the Congress of Paris in the following year. He was appointed ambassador at Turin in 1861, and at Berlin in 1864. Benedetti drew up the draft of a secret treaty between France and Prussia in 1870; and it was he who made at Ems the demand about the Hohenzollern candidature that led to the war. In Ma Mission en Prusse (1871) and Studies in Diplomacy (Eng. trans. 1895) he defends his own policy and throws all blame on Bismarck. He retired to Corsica, and practised at the bar of Ajaccio.