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Louis Charles Nicolas Maximilien de Montigny
敏体尼Mǐntǐní · 1805–1868
First French consul in Shanghai (1847), who negotiated the French concession with daotai Lin Gui in April 1849.
Louis Charles Nicolas Maximilien de Montigny (敏体尼, Mǐntǐní) was the first French consul in Shanghai and the negotiator of the French concession.
He came to China in 1843 with Lagrené’s mission and took up the Shanghai post on 20 January 1847. He built the first French consulate on a vacant plot belonging to the French firm Remi’s on the Bund. Soon afterwards he raised the question of a French settlement with daotai Wu Jianzhang, using the land application of the merchant Remi as his ground; Wu put him off.
On 6 April 1849 Montigny and Wu’s successor Lin Gui agreed the concession’s limits: from the moat south of the county city’s north gate to the Yangjingbang in the north, and from the Chaozhou guild hall in the east to the Guandi temple and Chujiaqiao in the west.
He went on leave in June 1853, leaving Edan as acting consul, and was sent to Siam in 1855. Back in Shanghai in June 1857, he became consul-general in 1858, moved to Guangzhou in 1859 and retired in 1862.
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- B. Edan爱棠Named Edan acting consul in 1853
- Lin Gui麟桂Agreed the French concession with daotai Lin Gui
- Wu Jianzhang吴健彰Pressed daotai Wu Jianzhang to mark out a French settlement