BOURGOING (Joan Faeticts Da), was born of an ancient family at Nevers, on the 20th Novem ber 1748. He was educated at the Military School of Paris, and devoted himself particularly to the study of the languages. At the age of seventeen he was sent by the government to Strasburgh, where he studied Publio Law under the celebrated Profes sor Kugler. Having spent three years there, he received a commission in the regiment of Auvergne. When scarcely twenty, be was appointed of Legation at the Diet of Ratisbon ; and after hav ing been employed, during four years, in the dis charge of various diplomatic functions, he returned to his regiment; where he continued to occupy him self with the study of Public Law. In 1777, he went as first Secretary to M. de who was appointed Ambassador to the Court of Madrid. Eight years afterwards, Montmorin having been re called, Bourgoing remained eighteen months at Ma drid in the character of Charge d'Affaires. It wan during this long residence in Spain that he collected the materials for his. Tableau de 1' gspagne soder:ie. On his return to France, in 1787, he was sent as Minister Plenipotentiary to namburgh ; and, in 1791, he went in a similar capacity to Madrid, where be remained until the month of March 1793. Having again returned to France, during the most trouble some period of the Revolution, he retired to his na tive town, where for some time he filled the first municipal office. The revolution of the 18th Bre moire (10th November 1799) drew him at length from the bosom of privacy. In 1801, the First Consul appointed him Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Denmark, and afterwards at that of Sweden. In 1808, he was sent as Minister Pleni potentiary to Saxony. At Dresden he was attack ed by the complaint which terminated his life; and he died at Carlsbad, whither he had repaired for the benefit of the water*, on the 20th of July 1811, at the age of sixty-three.
Bourgoing was a man of the most disinterested in tegrity; and he died poor, although he had been em ployed in various situations in which he might have found opportunities of acquiring wealth. He left a family of five children, three sous and two daughters. The following is a list of his publications i. Nouveau Voyage in Espagne, ou Tableau de l'etat actual de cette Monarchie ; first published in 1789, 3 vols. 8vo. The fourth edition augmented, was published under the title of Tableau de r Espagne moderne, in 1807, in S vole. 8vo, with an atlas. This if the best known and most esteemed of his works, and has been translated into various languages. 2. Memoires, Historiques, et Philosophiques, 824T Pie VI. et sur son POM4C418, 2 vols. 8vo, 1798 ; second edition, 1800. Some pre fer the first edition of this work, although the second is continued to the death of Pius VI. 3. Histoire des Flibustiers, traduite de r Alleinand di M. d'Arches holta, Paris 1804, 8vo. 4. Histaire de rEmperestr Charlemagne, traduction libre de r Alienated du Prof. Hegetvisch, 1805, Svo. 5. Correspondence d'un jam Militaire, ou Menioires du Marques de Lusigny et d'Hortense de S. Just, 1778, 2 vole. 12mo. Boer going translated some other works from the German, and published several tracts of little importance. In 1808, he published an edition of the Travels V the Disc du Chatekt in Portugal and he was the Editor of the Correspondence of Voltaire with Bernie. (a.)