the election, a visiting French businessman, Yves de la Tour d'Auvergne, whose operations were primarily based out of Martinique and French Guiana, spoke to Congressman David Hubbard in a way that Hubbard characterized as condescending, explaining basic facts about Alabama to Hubbard as if Hubbard did not already know them (including deliberately obvious things such as which city was the capital, and the fact Alabama had not been a state for a hundred years) and also referring to Hubbard in the third person, in English, while Hubbard was present and speaking of him "as though he were a fool." During this exchange, Hubbard had been a guest of d'Auvergne and was "shocked" by the treatment. Hubbard was known as a major public supporter of Collier, and Monsieur de la Tour d'Auvergne gave a very public toast to Shields at the event. Shields was considered the invité d'honneur or "guest of honor" at the event, and Hubbard later concluded he had only been invited as an insult. After the election, it became clear to both d'Auvergne and ambassador Guillaume-Tell de La Vallée Poussin that they had greatly misjudged public opinion amongst "the leading men of Alabama," following this d'Auvergne departed Mobile. Following his term as governor, Collier was offered a seat in the United States Senate but declined and retired. See also Collier-Overby House, Collier's residence in Tuscaloosa, on the National Register of Historic Places References Alabama Department of Archives and History 1801 births 1855 deaths People from Lunenburg County, Virginia Governors of Alabama Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of Alabama Democratic Party governors of Alabama Justices of the Supreme Court of Alabama 19th-century American judges