Roustan or Rustam, is the nickname of Napoleon Bonaparte's famous bodyguard Rostom Raza. Roustan was born in Tbilisi, and was considered to be both Georgian and Armenian. His father, Rustam Unan was a merchant.
Rustam (possible Georgian name: Rostom Razmadze) was kidnapped when he was a child and sold as a slave in Cairo. One of the local authorities presented a young slave to General Napoleon Bonaparte in 1798. Thus, Rustam (French form: Roustan) became a bodyguard of Napoleon till 1814, when the former married Mademoiselle Douville in Dourdan, France and refused to follow the Emperor in his exile to Elba.
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Roustan persuaded the Bey's government to annul the concession, despite the protests of Sir Richard Wood, and on May 6, 1876, it was reissued to the Société de Construction des Batignolles.(13) This company transferred its rights to a subsidiary, the Compagnie de Bône-Guelma, a hitherto unimportant organization interested in Algerian railways.
Roustan, as political agent of France, was pursuing a policy of "penetration" and was always eager for pretexts on which the authority of his nation might be demonstrated or increased, so of course he took the part of the Count.
Roustan exulted over the addition to French influence that the Enfida would mean ---"70,000 hectares: it is a province."(40) The new prime minister and the Bey (and presumably the Italian consul, behind the Bey) were naturally much alarmed when they heard of this latest increase of French interests.
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