Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician and diplomat (died 1770)

Carl Gustaf Tessin

Swedish nobleman and politician (1695–1770)

Count Carl Gustaf Tessin was a Swedish Count and politician and son of architect Nicodemus Tessin the Younger and Hedvig Eleonora Stenbock. He was one of the most brilliant personages of his day, and the most prominent representative of French culture in Sweden. He was also…