{"record":{"aliases":["Enrique Dupuy de Lôme y Paulin","Enrique Dupuy de Lome"],"appointmentIds":["spain-d1e4e2d8bdf68d","spain-779008fd5d83da","spain-7fc30d911e0168"],"appointmentsDataset":"https://chanceries.org/diplomats.json","archivalSources":[],"canonicalUrl":"https://chanceries.org/diplopedia/people/enrique-dupuy-lome-fcd72b30e6/","countrySlug":"spain","entityId":"https://chanceries.org/diplopedia/people/enrique-dupuy-lome-fcd72b30e6/#person","eventIds":[],"expandedParagraphs":["Enrique Dupuy de Lôme combined diplomacy with published studies of other countries. He served in the Americas and returned repeatedly to the Spanish mission in Washington, first as chargé and later as minister. His final American mission ended in February 1898, when Madrid accepted his resignation and appointed Juan du Bosc to take charge.","Public controversy erupted with publication of his private letter to José Canalejas on 9 February 1898. Dupuy de Lôme had disparaged President William McKinley and discussed the proposed commercial negotiations concerning Cuba in language that American officials considered insincere. Assistant Secretary of State William R. Day confronted him with the original. According to Secretary of State John Sherman’s account, the minister acknowledged authorship but argued that the English translation had sharpened phrases intended for private conversation. He told Day that he had already telegraphed Madrid on 8 and 9 February asking to leave his post.","Madrid accepted his resignation before the American demand for recall was formally presented there. Removing the minister did not immediately resolve the dispute. In a note of 15 February, Spanish foreign minister Pío Gullón disavowed the offensive criticism but defended his government’s good faith in colonial reform and commercial negotiations. Sherman reported American satisfaction on 18 February."],"id":"spain:enrique-dupuy-lome","identifiers":{},"legacyPersonIds":[],"legacyUrl":"https://chanceries.org/diplomat-fcd72b30e6f8c72f252d.html","name":"Enrique Dupuy de Lôme","notes":[],"paragraphSources":[["dupuy-bne","repertory","du-bosc-letter"],["great-dupuy-sherman-1898"],["great-dupuy-gullon-1898","great-dupuy-sherman-1898"]],"profileUrl":"diplomat-fcd72b30e6f8c72f252d.html","relatedEvents":[],"relatedPeople":[],"relationships":[],"researchStatus":"limited","reviewedOn":"2026-11-02","revision":"d27e03c03bbcef85","sources":[{"accessedOn":"2026-10-29","date":null,"id":"dupuy-bne","locator":"Author authority and published writings","publisher":"www.bne.es","title":"Enrique Dupuy de Lôme — Biblioteca Nacional de España","type":"national library authority","url":"https://www.bne.es/es/autores/dupuy-lome-enrique"},{"accessedOn":"2026-10-29","date":null,"id":"repertory","locator":"United States, printed pp. 179–180; other country entries where individually cited","publisher":"www.exteriores.gob.es","title":"Repertorio diplomático español","type":"official history","url":"https://www.exteriores.gob.es/es/ServiciosAlCiudadano/PublicacionesOficiales/Repertorio%20Diplom%C3%A1tico.pdf"},{"accessedOn":"2026-10-29","date":null,"id":"du-bosc-letter","locator":"Signed notice of Dupuy’s resignation and du Bosc’s assumption of charge","publisher":"history.state.gov","title":"Juan du Bosc to John Sherman, 11 February 1898 — FRUS","type":"primary correspondence","url":"https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1898/d961"},{"accessedOn":"2026-11-02","date":"1898-02-23","id":"great-dupuy-sherman-1898","inspection":{"inspectedOn":"2026-11-02","language":"en","representation":"published_transcription","scope":"Sherman’s English dispatch of February 23, 1898, inspected for his account of authorship, the translation dispute, resignation, and the American response. The inspection does not claim examination of Dupuy de Lôme’s original Spanish manuscript or the enclosures listed as not printed.","status":"document_inspected"},"locator":"FRUS 1898, document 975, pp. 1018–1020; authorship, translation, resignation, and final response","publisher":"Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State","title":"Sherman to Woodford on the Dupuy de Lôme affair, 23 February 1898","type":"primary correspondence","url":"https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1898/d975"},{"accessedOn":"2026-11-02","date":"1898-02-15","id":"great-dupuy-gullon-1898","inspection":{"inspectedOn":"2026-11-02","language":"en","representation":"published_translation","scope":"The February 15 Spanish note by Pío Gullón was inspected in the English translation enclosed with Woodford’s February 17 dispatch. Woodford explicitly identifies it as his translation of the Spanish note; the English covering dispatch was also inspected. The Spanish original was not examined.","status":"document_inspected"},"locator":"FRUS 1898, document 971, pp. 1015–1016; translated Spanish reply","publisher":"Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State","title":"Gullón to Woodford, 15 February 1898, enclosed in Woodford dispatch of 17 February","translation":{"language":"en","originalLanguage":"es"},"type":"primary correspondence","url":"https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1898/d971"},{"accessedOn":"","date":"","id":"mission-d17ca4bb21762c82aa2d","locator":"","publisher":"","title":"Spain — U.S. Chief of Protocol incoming representatives","type":"Mission record","url":"https://2009-2017.state.gov/s/cpr/rls/94445.htm"}],"topics":[]},"schemaVersion":1}